Lip Picking and Anxiety: The Mental Health Habit I Wish I Didn’t Have

Anatomy of a panic attack…

This is very raw and personal. I won’t give advice. I can’t tell you I’m an expert on anxiety. I can’t claim to know how to handle it perfectly because I’m still walking the long road to learning how to help myself. Yesterday I had an...
The dentist chair makes me reach for Valium

The dentist chair makes me reach for Valium

I don’t like going to the dentist. I’m fairly certain there are very few people who genuinely look forward to sitting in a chair while someone pokes around in their mouth, but for some people, a dental appointment is more than just something they’d rather avoid. It...
When the stomach bug makes you anxious…

When the stomach bug makes you anxious…

(This is what the virus that causes most stomach bugs looks like. Fairly innocent and innocuous until it hits your system and makes you ill!) No one likes the stomach bug. No one enjoys when it lurches it’s nasty way into your system, and makes you ill, and...
Lip Picking and Anxiety: The Mental Health Habit I Wish I Didn’t Have

I got lost. Anxiety & a mental health breakdown

My name is Karen, and I am someone who struggles with anxiety. I got lost.  I normally struggle on quietly, and cope, although those close to me, usually can tell when my coping mechanisms are cracking and failing. I have always been an anxious person, all of my life,...