Associate Mental Health Editor at The Mighty. Juliette believes mental health care should be accessible to all.
Oftentimes, we millennials are viewed as being unable to handle the challenges life presents. When you struggle with a mental illness, life can be really difficult — and struggling doesn’t mean you don’t have resiliency skills. So, to my fellow millennials struggling with mental illness, this one’s for you.
I become aggressively social when I’m out with a lot of people. I don’t want to seem nervous so I start talking and sometimes can’t stop because if I do, my momentum will crash and I’ll feel myself panicking.
When panic attacks started to rule my life — everything revolved around them. That’s when I realized I couldn’t go on like this.
Any “adult” task added to my to-do list brought on a wave of anxiety about the impending need to accomplish it. I became so overwhelmed by these thoughts and how much I had to do that I felt immobilized. It was easier for me to pretend like I was managing just fine than admit I needed help.