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Some people have anxiety around crowds. Some people have anxiety about flying. I have anxiety about what people think of me.

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Studies have shown that just looking at a natural green environment can boost one’s spirits.

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Worrying is not a choice for girls with anxiety, it just happens.

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My anxiety is not me being “psycho”. My anxiety does not make me unstable either.

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Not every day is bad, that’s for certain, but go through a period of stress, and the inflamed mind can take its own vacation into a land of discomfort, a place it knows very well.

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I know it’s all in my head but I have lost the map to try to get out of my head. I hit dead ends so often and have to turn back and try again. This maze is so complicated

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Like a messy ex – lover who knows when to call you when you’re at your weakest, anxiety surrounds you until you accept it.

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It feels like the floor underneath you is dropping. In college when this first happened to me, I thought the ground beneath was literally moving, or that maybe an earthquake was occurring.

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I’ve begun to believe it myself. Every time I feel my chest get heavy, my hands get sweaty, my vision become disconnected, I tell myself to suck it up: that it’s all in my head. Maybe it is.

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No matter how much society has claimed to be enlightened, people still don’t understand what it is to be depressed, suicidal, anxious, or mentally ill.