Life with a dash of ADHD for good measure
Hi, I’m Karen
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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 ...
If sleep is for the weak, then I am weak….
If sleep is for the weak, then I am week. I am also TIRED. Bone tired, exhausted, beyond my capacity to cope with life, because I am sleep deprived. My gorgeous little boy has been such a poor sleeper for so long (from aged 9 months until now, approx 29 months) that my body ...
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