What is Anxiety?

Welcome to my blog, I am Cilla, a survivor of anxiety, panic attacks and depression. I am starting this blog to share with you some insight and tools I use everyday. This is all very new, scary but exciting for me!

Everyone gets anxiety but how you react to it makes all the difference. Anxiety is the feeling you experience when your standing in line waiting for your turn to hit the ball or waiting on the reports from a test. It’s your natural response of flight, fight or freeze with your emotions. If your reaction of feelings go beyond the normal response, you can be dealing with an anxiety disorder. Here are some examples of having a disorder:

-inability to control ones thoughts

-being overly tense, restless or nervous and you are unable to relax

-feeling that there is danger or calamity at hand

-excessive worry about normal things or worrying about things that are non existent

-difficulty concentrating

-you are unable to stop worrying about a particular event or situation

-being overly concerned about making decisions because you are afraid of making a mistake

-playing out, in one’s mind, every option in a situation out until it ends negatively (what if thinking)

-trembling

-rapid breathing

-nausea or other gastrointestinal problems

-muscle tension or headaches

-being irritable or easily startled

-trouble sleeping

-loss of appetite

You may experience some or all of these symptoms or you can experience others not listed. Our nervous systems get attacked so other parts of your body can be affected, everyone is different and our bodies respond differently.

If you are someone that struggles in dealing with anxiety then this blog is for you. My purpose is to share my experiences in hopes that they will encourage and lift you up, that you are not your symptoms. I will share tools and truths that have given me back my life and allowed me to function in this world.

Until next time, don’t focus on the symptoms and what your feeling, don’t allow your emotions to control you. We all experience stress which creates the anxiety but how you react is the game changer.

💕Cilla