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Word of advice from an anxious person

Nevermind_me
Community Member

To all the anxiety survivours,

1. You're stronger than you think. It isn't easy battling demons in your head. In fact, it's exhausting! For 25 years of my life I've been at war with myself. Sometimes I let the demons show, other times I don't. It takes strength to hide something so severe and fool others into believing you're fine. Trust me!

2. Anxiety isn't your personality. It's all in your head, not something that characterises you. You're a beautiful and complex human being. Don't ever feel you aren't, just cause somedays feel harder than others.

3. Anxiety is serious and can have an effect on your whole life. Don't ever let others tell you to 'toughen up' or make you feel that your problems are insignificant. These people are the problem, not you.

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OrganizedNotReally
Community Member

THANK YOU!

i am very new to bad anxiety and recently started having panic attacks. Your words really helped me today!
stay well

Hi Missep123,

That's great that you've found someone to relate too 🙂 I'm glad to also know that the advice helped.

Nevermind_me

Hi OrganizedNotReally,

I'm so glad to hear it helped. 🙂 You stay well too

Nevermind_me