Anxiety disorders are actually really really debilitating. It's awful to spend months or years of your life in fear of things that no one else is afraid of. Or you entire life in my case. I've learned to try to have fear coexist with happiness or joy but it is really hard. If I didn't try I would never enjoy anything. The anxiety isn't going to stop, so what choice is there.

I get very frustrated when people claim that anxiety is not a disability or included in neurodivergence. My anxiety has only even meant I was pushed further out of society, never included. I feel just as excluded from society for being autistic as I do for having anxiety disorders. It's the same fight for me.

That's my experience at least.

#anxiety #Neurodiversity #autism #ActuallyAutistic #neurodivergent #mentalHealth #mentalHealthMatters #PanicAttack #panicDisorder #DisabilityPrideMonth #Disability

Almost passed out (yay trauma), but managed to call the office and promise a payment by tonight and asked them to inform management as such.

They mentioned how it was expected yesterday, I told them we didn’t have anything.

Really want to avoid them having to knock at our door again. 😰😭

#CPTSD #Trauma #PanicDisorder #HousingCrisis #Terrified #LongCovid

Accidently deleted Tusky which Couldn't happen at a worse time, omg, thanks for the panic attack fucking dyspraxic hands 😤

Finally just got it reinstalled and managed to sign in, but am having such a bad time, omfg 😰

#Dyspraxia #Crisis #Unsafe #Trans #CPTSD #EvictionRisk #PanicDisorder

Wondering if these chest pains are from hunger or anxiety.

Probably both, honestly. 😩

#Anxiety #CPTSD #PanicDisorder

Panic attack in the supermarket. I’ve sat down and am waiting for it to pass.

#PanicDisorder #PanicAttacks #CPTSD

Hungry as fuck and feeling very close to another nervous breakdown.

#Depression #Poverty #Unhoused #UnhousedWithCats #Anxiety #PanicDisorder #Hungry #Scared

I have a lap full of kitties and I wish I could enjoy this moment, but my heart is pounding from anxiety over our living situation.

I know the building owners will come for us today, we haven't been able to pay in like a week and I don't even know what our balance is but significantly over $1200 by now 😭

#Anxiety #PanicDisorder #Trauma #CPTSD #Unhoused #Debt #Inn #Homeless #Cats #Kitties

Got sigh https://apple.news/AWubtYb3vR_-Z6uMkVcW47A #anxiety #stress #panicattack #panicattacks #panicDisorder

You are not alone if you are & do suffer from #Anxiety disorder and/ or #GeneralizedAnxiety with #PanicDisorder . Remember, it's OKAY to reach out to people you trust.

Make sure you let them know, you just need them to listen w/out input as you verbally express (vomit)- input after you're done expressing is individual & it's okay to let the person you are speaking with to know this.
https://lisgal.medium.com/suffering-from-anxiety-disorder-you-are-not-alone-1c25cd2356d3

Today has been spent absolutely panicking, crying, and running to the bathroom because yay stress + IBS (sarcasm).

#PanicDisorder #Trauma #ChronicallyIll

It's been a few years since I've written anything on @medium , time to start writing again.

My mind has been full of stories, but it's also been full of too much clutter... time to de-clutter my brain & organize it in writing.

To those suffering from #Anxiety #PanicDisorder Winter #SAD I feel your pain. Here is one of my older articles that I believe aged well, sadly.
https://medium.com/@lisgal/from-winter-sad-to-covid-gad-stuck-in-the-tunnel-8f73251e25cd

2022 was a pretty rough one for me mentally. After being diagnosed with #PanicDisorder, #anxiety, and major #depression, I had to take several months off work to help get myself back to a baseline level of normality. One of the biggest changes I made was starting an SSRI, something I had resisted doing for years. I mistakenly believed the stigma that if you have to take medication for your mental health, you had somehow failed.

The decision to start taking medication is a very personal one and is not for everyone; it should only be done in consultation with your doctor. However, it is difficult for me to overstate the positive effect it has had on balancing my moods.

#MentalHealth

Holy smokes, I’ve written a new blog post!
(Yes it’s still about me…)

“Life Shift With A Side Of Positive Memories”

https://sheepchase.net/2023/01/life-shift-with-a-side-of-positive-memories/

#CPTSD #Japan #sociology #HCI #WorkingLife #depression #PanicDisorder #Academia #Tenure #Therapy

I was going to re-do my #introduction as I’ve now made this my only account, but what I wrote still stands so I’ll just add some extra info:

- I did my #sociology PhD on the construction and maintenance of #community in modern #Paganism in #Britain. I used #ethnography (#QualitativeResearch) in a frame of #ethnomethodololgy
- In #Japan my #research has been on #HCI #museums #nursing and #caringwork
- I quit work due to #PanicDisorder, #Depression and #CPTSD
- I’ve been in Japan 20 years

“Panic! At the Bistro”

About how my Panic Disorder developed

https://sheepchase.net/2020/10/panic-at-the-bistro/

#PanicAttacks #PanicDisorder #MentalIllness #MentalHealth #InvisibleIllness

Made it out of the house, which after the big panic attack last night is an achievement. Queued for a long time in a bakery and felt faint but bought something for lunch 👍

#PanicDisorder #CPTSD

Don’t recommend having a full on panic attack in winter in a Japanese house. Boiling hot so take it sweater, then pouring with cold sweat, then shivering with actual cold because it’s 1°C.

Horrible experience. Going to try to rest in bed.

#PanicDisorder

Don’t recommend having a full on panic attack in winter in a Japanese house. Boiling hot so take it sweater, then pouring with cold sweat, then shivering with actual cold because it’s 1°C.

Horrible experience. Going to try to rest in bed.

#PanicDisorder

Wow. I just realized it’s been TEN YEARS (!) since I did my TEDx talk on my experience with anxiety. It’s wild how far I’ve come since #panicdisorder and #agoraphobia stole, like, 95% of my 20s and early 30s. Finding mastery, autonomy, and purpose in work (and life) really did make a hell of a difference. (I mean, along with meds and CBT and plenttttyyyy more.) #anxiety #mentalhealth #danpink #tedx

RT @davide_papola
📚📖New paper out:
Are #CBT delivery formats all equally effective in the treatment of #panicdisorder?
Access the results of our latest #NMA here
👇
https://bit.ly/3Ww9Lqb

@psych_verona @pimcuijpers @KaryotakiEirini @Toshi_FRKW @chiaragastaldon @GOstuzzi @SijbrandijMarit