I think the hardest aspects of anxiety is getting things done, especially if I'm anxious about that assignment. It takes a lot of time and effort for me to get started because I'm anxious about the result that I might get, and I think another hard aspect is getting to know new people. It makes me overthink about how they might perceive me or how I should approach them.
I hardly feel comfortable around anyone and oftentimes I'm really worried about what people think of me, even though logically I know that there's no reason I should be thinking about that. Also, I'll be just doing anything and I'll notice that for some reason I'm hyperventilating or that my heartbeat is going really quickly and it hurts. So yeah, it's hard to concentrate and to feel comfortable.
For me, the hardest aspect of having anxiety is talking in front of people. I had a hard time speaking in front of people. When I speak in front of the big crowds, I just felt fear. My mouth didn't move and I had a hard time breathing. Those are really difficult for me when I have to deal with anxiety.
The hardest thing is that there are days where I'm good and days when I'm not as good. The days when I'm not as good, I don't have the motivation or the energy to seek out the help, which is so silly because that's exactly what you need. And on the days that you're good, you're like, ah, I'm fine, like this isn't as bad as I thought or like what it was like last week, so like I don't need to worry about it right now. When ultimately, whether it's a good day or like a hard day, those days both come. And so if there are any hard days, it's just worth getting the help. And that's what I'm, you know, trying to just like learn, work through. But yeah, when I have decided like, OK, I need help, it brings a lot of like peace of mind. So I would say do that.
So the hardest aspects of having anxiety or dealing with anxiety, I think a lot of times is there people that haven't had anxiety, like obviously not everyone gets anxious about school or work or other things, but true anxiety, not everyone has it. And so a lot of times it gets discredited as being just a mental thing of you need to just toughen up or, you know, work harder. But in reality, it's definitely a real thing that people struggle with. I've struggled with it. And so just remember that, you know, it is a real thing that, you know, it's not just something where you need to toughen up, but it's actually something that you're dealing with. And that doesn't make you different. That doesn't make you weird. That doesn't anything. We all have our different thing cards that we've been dealt. Um, so just continue to stay positive, continue to love yourself and just know that it's a process to work through anxiety, but there is light at the end of the tunnel, no matter how dark it seems, there will be light. Just keep going. Um, keep understanding that some people just don't understand where you're going through and just be patient with them and with yourself.
So one of the hardest aspects of anxiety for me is that sometimes it's really hard to explain like what exactly anxiety is to like an anxiety disorder to someone who hasn't necessarily experienced anxiety disorder. I could be anxious for no reason at all, my heart could be beating super fast, I could just be feeling on edge, and it's hard for people to understand that experience and that feeling when they haven't been through it themselves. So that's one of the hardest aspects for me.
I think for me the hardest aspect of anxiety is just me being hard on myself when I feel anxious and I realize that maybe I'm being irrational about certain things just because of the anxiety. I tend to like beat myself up about it and just feel yucky just because I feel like I can do better but I can't. It's just how my brain works. I worry a lot and I spiral. So I think that would be the hardest aspect is I just get I beat myself up about things but I can't escape that.
For people who deal with this, that they allow it to limit themselves before they even get to the event that'll make them anxious, this is allowing them to not experience the best life possible. If they only knew if they took that one little step, life could be so much more enjoyable and they'll be less anxious over time.
For me, the hardest aspects of anxiety is just the obstacle it creates. A lot of times when I'm feeling anxious, I have a hard time getting things done or doing the thing I know I need to do, especially if the specific thing is making me anxious. That's probably the hardest part of it.