"I just wish people knew how hard it is to actually live with anxiety and that it isn't an excuse."
I have both anxiety and panic attacks. For me, anxiety expresses a lot of physical symptoms and are usually built up beforehand, whereas...
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Anonymous
Apr 28, 20224 min
"If someone is nice to me, I am convinced they have an ulterior motive for being nice."
My BPD symptoms have existed for as long as I can remember, and I spent most of my teens under a CAMHS team. Despite this, I was well...
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Anonymous
Apr 19, 20223 min
"There are reasons why I am like I am, and the intrusive thoughts do not make me a bad person."
I think I have always known I had OCD but never really knew a life without it. With people saying ‘oh, I’m a bit OCD’ I thought that...
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Anonymous
Apr 18, 20227 min
"I couldn’t bring myself to leave the house- I cried on the doorstep for three hours."
Today was the fifth time I have left the house since 2017. That’s five times in five years. If you think that’s extreme, that’s because...
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Anonymous
Feb 9, 20229 min
"I started to realise it’s okay not to be okay- but only if it doesn’t inconvenience anyone else."
I am a teacher and I have depression and anxiety. Sadly these days, this is a sentence that is true not only of me but also of the...
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Anonymous
Jan 31, 20222 min
"I said goodbye to my family, mentally thanked them for loving me and prepared myself for death."
I’ve had health anxiety for as long as I can remember. In fact, I don’t think I’ve ever lived an anxiety-free life. My health anxiety is...
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Anonymous
Jan 27, 20227 min
"Life as a single parent is really tough. You feel like you’re set up to fail from day one."
When people talk about mental health, there seems to be one group of people who are often overlooked in the debate, even though almost...
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Anonymous
Jan 23, 20225 min
"I had followed my dreams – and they had led me to a dead end."
Four months ago, I quit my job. I have worked in education for the best part of my working life, but for the last two years, I had been a...
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Anonymous
Jan 19, 20225 min
"It's hard to explain why I do something that purposely destroys my looks, but I simply can't stop."
For years now, I have kept an embarrassing secret from everyone I know. I don’t think anyone around me would understand if I told them...
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Anonymous
Jan 16, 20225 min
"They tell you to have a cup of tea and that you’ll feel better in the morning."
For many individuals suffering from mental illness, intrusive thoughts about suicide and the urge to end one’s life are a common symptom...
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Anonymous
Dec 31, 20214 min
"The dopamine hit makes me feel high- I’m invincible and I have no regard for consequences."
Adulting in such a capitalist society is hard at the best of times, but try having a mental illness that makes this even harder. I’m one...
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Anonymous
Dec 29, 20217 min
"You’re one of the most nervous drivers I’ve ever seen and you’re not safe on the road."
For as long as I can remember, my life has been dominated by a very specific and embarrassing form of anxiety- driving anxiety. Even...
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Anonymous
Dec 27, 20218 min
"I'd felt that I could just keep going and it would go away. It turned out that it didn't."
It's about 4am on a Sunday morning in June. I'm filling my time sat in a toilet, trying to calm myself from having what seems to be a...
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Anonymous
Dec 22, 20213 min
"I was planning how I was going to kill myself the next morning while I was in bed."
When I was 19, I lost a close friend to suicide towards the end of my first year at university. He was a delightful young man who was...
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Anonymous
Dec 19, 20213 min
"Aside from the therapy bill, I've got off easily. Thousands a year aren't so lucky."
I am a victim of workplace abuse. Big sentence right there. I wouldn't have had the courage to use that terminology whilst I was going...
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Anonymous
Nov 28, 20215 min
"I was terrified that I wouldn’t be taken seriously."
It was my first week of teacher training when I received a message from someone from my past. “Hey, I was sure I had seen you around...
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Anonymous
Nov 21, 20212 min
"I simply could not cope with the constant chatter inside my head."
I am a secondary school teacher and I have been diagnosed with anxiety. A number of doctors have suggested other mental health diagnoses,...
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Anonymous
Nov 14, 20214 min
"Being around people who understand is priceless.
I’m illegal in 32 countries. There’s no positive way to frame that. Regrettably, we live in a prejudiced world, and I know I won’t see...
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Anonymous
Oct 31, 20214 min
"Socialising is a minefield, especially when you also have anxiety."
Imagine for a moment that you struggle to think of things to say, have no concept of social navigation (which seemingly comes naturally...
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