With or without drugs, battling anxiety can be nerve-racking
Suffering from anxiety is so common now that I don't feel a hint of embarrassment when it comes to talking about it, whether it's with friends, strangers or readers. Who doesn't feel anxious about some life events? A first date, a big test, an important meeting—it's just as common as any other emotion we feel.
While people can experience anxiety at any point in their life, not all experience a definitive moment-in-time trigger as I did. Art Markman, the professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin and author of, explains that,"when there is a key triggering event, then the anxiety is often associated with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder . However, there are plenty of people who suffer from long-term anxiety that do not have a clear source.
I experienced a slight setback when my guidance counsellor, whom I had begun to really trust and rely on, left the school. So, I began to see a therapist outside of school, who got me to start meditating to help keep my anxiety at bay. With time, it helped to keep me in my classes—but I still couldn't help feeling confused and depressed about what was going on inside my body, when all my friends were going on to do normal teenage things.
"Carrying Xanax is one kind of safety behaviour," the doctor explains,"In its most extreme form, obsessive compulsive disorder involves elaborate safety-behaviour routines that someone performs to help them reduce their anxiety. The potential problem with safety behaviours is that people learn that the behaviour is the thing that gets them through the fear, rather than facing the anxiety-provoking situation itself." However, my mother really pushed me to face my fears.
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