Life with a dash of ADHD for good measure
Hi, I’m Karen
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Lip picking and anxiety. Bad habits and mental health.
People who know me really well, and that is very few people, know that I have a couple of bad habits that tend to betray how I am doing, in myself, and how life is treating me and lip picking is one of those tells.
I used to bite my nails, but stopped when my mother bribed ...
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 panic attack. It's been a while. I know ...
When you need valium to go to the dentist…
I don't like going to the dentist. I am pretty sure that there are actually very few people who are thrilled by the idea, but there are a number of people in the population, who actually have anxiety around going to the dentist and having dental treatment, and I am one of ...
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 spreads to your ...
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, for ...
Getting over a fear of spiders. It can be done
I was terrified of spiders, big ones, small ones, hairy ones, I did not like them. I would freak out if I knew one was in a room, and the thought of them made me anxious and sweaty. I think my fear stems from a small spider falling on my face, from a wall, when I was a ...
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