Things growing up that should’ve had alarmed us- Anxiety edition
Good morning!
I got fully diagnosed with anxiety & depression as I turned 20years old. By then I had completed my accounting diploma & had a few months into this new job.. that I ended up quitting on Dec 19, 2014 because I couldn’t stop crying 😅 that left me completely terrified come night time as I was sure they were gonna come and get me to force me to work.. thanksfully that was just in my head, didn’t happened
However, there’s memories that tells me that it had always been there; even if it was newly diagnosed as an early adult. The bad experience made it so I needed therapy and treatment, but my anxiety was definately in a more dormant state; we can’t tell for sure I wouldn’t had needed the meds even without that incidents.
Here’s the signs that I now recall something was wrong;
Fire paranoïa
- ; i’ve always been SO scared of an house fire. I remember laying in my bed as a child and just.. picturing what i’d do if the fire alarm rang?
Warf driving makes me anxious;
- We lived in a town near the sea, so we often made turns on the warf to see the landscape.. even knowing my dad was a good driver, I was terrified of the car falling in the sea somehow. Especially backing up.
Random panic?;
- One thing that I told mother that didn’t really scared me but I found wierd, was how sometimes i’d play with my dolls and I couldn’t catch my breath. Like if breathing was a circle, I couldn’t fully get back up the curb.
I often go to remember things like that, that I know upon retelling them to friends & coworkers that it actually isn’t normal 💀 things that instantely make me go “mmh, maybe that should’ve made us click..”
Did you had some of these too?