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Let Me Tell You a Little Story About Anxiety #blogginggroove

brandyellen — Sun, 07 Aug 2016 01:33:16 +0000

The pain of walking into a store alone, it was so real. To this day I can feel the depths of the dagger that twisted into my stomach with the mere thought of walking into a public location alone. I recall my mother not fully understanding how I could not just walk into the store or the bank, memory can’t bring back which it was. To my mom I am sure it seemed like a mere simple task, you get out of the car and walk into the place, but inside I was dying. Living with Anxiety The stigma of anxiety haunts me on a regular basis; living with anxiety is no joke. While I wasn’t diagnosed until a year or so after my first child’s birth, I still recall …

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5 Tips on Working with an Anxious Child

brandyellen — Fri, 10 Jan 2014 17:14:10 +0000

Anxiety. Mood disorder. Special Needs. It’s all fine within your own household, you see we learn to deal with our children in a way that works for them. Society, on the other hand, has zero tolerance for people who don’t fit their mold of what they think to be the norm. I am at the point where I am about sick of being stared at every single time my child is having a difficult day due to either a medication change or simply just having an off day. When my son has an off day, it’s unlike my other two children because he has a mood disorder and anxiety; this makes an off day for him closer to the end of the world mentality. It’s normal for him, it’s not …

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Day 1: This Sucks & No Body Likes Me

brandyellen — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 12:16:32 +0000

Oh the negative words! The words used for the title of this article hurt me so badly that whenever I hear them my heart aches. Not only because negativity is so hard for me to bear but because I can relate to feeling like this. I used to think that every person in the whole wide world hated me, I would sit at night all by myself and wonder where my life was going. I would worry about whether or not I would ever be married. I worried if my parents would ever feel I was good enough. I often had panic attacks, anxiety, and depression episodes. One year my panic attacks were so bad that I looked at my boss and had this concerned look on my face. When …

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