“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.
Topic: anxiety
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.”
My First Panic Attack
Every moment, I was either feeling dizzy and having severe chest pains, or feeling like I couldn't breathe.
The Holiday Season Doesn’t Equate to Just One Feeling
We’re taught and encouraged to feel and honor a single emotion when the holiday season is upon us.
Beyond the Storm
Choose to keep walking forward, even if the path ahead is compromised by a lack of light.
Returning Anxiety
I Didn’t Mean to Stare: A Story About Trichotillomania
I know it’s rude to stare. I really didn’t mean to.
Breaking the Cycle of Generational Trauma as a Multiracial Woman
