anxiety + me

Mental illness is everywhere and affects everyone; whether you want to admit it or not. I decided to start anxiety + me to try and bring a little light to this topic that if often thrown to the side and fraught with stigma.

As the name suggests, I deal with anxiety in my everyday life, but as cheesy as it is, it doesn’t define me. There is anxiety, and there is me. They are not one in the same. Although mental illness can affect someone’s life, it doesn’t necessarily control their every move, and it’s important to separate that element from the person.

While I can’t do much, what I can do is use this space to share my experience and help to normalize mental health. Everyone is affected by mental illness whether they know it or not, and many people are criminially uninformed about the topic. I don’t expect to move mountains, but if sharing my own perspective helps one person understand mental illness a little better, or helps one person feel less alone in their experience, then I’ve done my job.