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You can feel the cloud hanging above you. You've snoozed the reminders time and time again. You can feel the growing knot in your stomach of anticipation. There is something you need to do that has your Fight-Flight-Freeze-Fawn response stuck in the Freeze gear. You are basically an anxious statue. The thing you need to be doing may not even be a big deal in the grand scheme of things but it feels impossible. You've tried the face-to-face mirror pep talk. The positive affirmation post its on your computer screen are all but invisible. The designated accountability friend has ... [more]

It had been three days. Just three. Over the course of three days in any other week, I would've been to countless meetings at work, loaded and unloaded the dishwasher at least ten times, and been to five different kid's sport practices. Instead, it had been three days and all I could do was just lay on the couch. The television was a 24/7 companion of reruns, movies I'd seen a thousand times, and provided background noise to stoke the sounds of when I'd cry late at night. I avoided being alone with my own thoughts at all costs. I knew everything I should've been doing to keep ... [more]

There is more and more representation of mental health issues in television and movies, which can be incredibly helpful for those who are looking for representation of themselves in characters, it can also be a little misleading when the symptoms are over-generalized. One of the more recent, common, and frequent portrayals are panic and anxiety attacks. ... [more]