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Category: Anxiety

Witnessing Grief & Offering Support—Is it for Selfish Reasons?

I was first friends with P back in 2006. We were young and spent many drunken evenings and smoke breaks at work talking about anything and everything, and it wasn’t long before P introduced me to her boyfriend D. They’d been together for years already, and it was obvious they…

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Catastrophic Thinking: My Brain’s Way of Saying Fuck You

Let me take you on a weird and personal—but hopefully enlightening—journey into my brain to reveal my innermost thoughts and try to explain how my anxiety manifests. How it triggers from the smallest most innocent seed until it wracks my every thought and consumes my every moment. I’ve briefly touched…

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From Anxiety to Understanding: Realizing I Need Help

I’ve had great mental health all my life. I’ve been fortunate to have never experienced ongoing anxiety or depression or anything resembling that growing up. Sure I’ve had moments of anxiety, like when I failed a year of university, but not ongoing, persistent, anxiety, where your thoughts are incessant and…

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