Thankful For A Panic Attack
Having a panic attack is not necessarily a sign of an impending breakdown or a step back in recovery.
Topic: anxiety
More Than a Teacher
Some of us are reaching or have reached the point of burnout.
Growing Pains
Growing pains are inevitable, but it’s all just a season.
Wearing My Heart on My Sleeve
Wearing your heart on your sleeve means you can share a truer version of yourself.
Hope: A Four-Legged Word
Cricket taught me that hope is everlasting—but sometimes you have to think outside of the box to find what works for you.
A Safety Plan For Anxiety Attacks
My skin feels hot and my jaw clenches. My hands are gripping the wheel. Intrusive thoughts make an attempt to take over.
“It gets better.”
You don’t magically become a new person, one who never knows dark-and-twisty thoughts. This is what I thought the phrase “it gets better” meant.
The Difference Between Panic and Anxiety
While these terms, “anxiety attack” and “panic attack,” tend to be used interchangeably, they are actually quite different from one another.
Visible to Many Yet Unseen by All
My mental health needed tending to, and I couldn’t put it off any longer.
The Spiral Staircase
Though I have known these feelings most of my almost 52 years of life, I have only recently felt unable to manage them. Healing from trauma is so far from being linear.
Growing Up in a Home That Doesn’t Believe in Mental Health
I thought I was broken somehow and there was no fixing it.
Healing from Beliefs of Perfectionism And Anxiety as a Second-Generation Immigrant
“You have to work twice as hard to be half as good.”
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