Beating Anxiety
How do I beat anxiety, the impossible sounding question we all want the answer to, but after two and a half decades I finally did it and here’s how. Anxiety is Not a Personality Trait Repeat after me, anxiety is not a personality trait. It is a mental illness that should be treated the same way a cold or a broken bone should be treated, except this illness wont go away on its own. Support Network A support network, one you can trust to talk about your anxiety too, is essential to beating it. You need to feel like you’re not alone and you need people around you who will love you and work with your anxiety. Having a particularly bad day and you get invited out? Well a good friend would understand when you say you can’t because you’re feeling like that. Therapy It took me until I was in my mid-twenties to try therapy and I feel like and idiot for waiting. Working on my anxiety alone was like trying to break a brick wall with my bare hands, but with therapy I feel like I have a hammer. I
