We all know the feeling. The moment your heart begins to race, you feel like a cinder block is sitting on your chest, and your mind begins to flood with so many thoughts that you can't even manage to grab ahold of one of them. Almost everyone at some point or another has felt the feeling of complete and utter anxiety.
For some people anxiety is a single discernible moment or situation. For others like myself it is more like a string of days, weeks, or months that begin to blur together. Whatever it is for you I encourage you to speak up about it. We all have heard the critics that tell us "its all in your head", "you're doing this to yourself you know", or my personal favorite "you can control it". Well ladies and gentlemen I'm here to tell you that none of those things are true. You most definitely can not control it. A wise woman once explained anxiety to me in a way that made me feel a little less crazy and a little more human. She told me that anxiety is simply your body reacting to a situation. Now those of us who have experienced anxiety start to think, "no kidding". But hear me out guys. In everyones life from birth to the present you experience things, good and bad but, these are all things that your brain stores whether you realize it or not. So, when your going through your everyday life and a simple smell, temperature or feeling reminds you brain of a past event that it has decided to store under the dangerous category it sounds all of the bells and whistles it can to save you. Your brains job is to keep you alive. So when someone tells you that your anxiety is all in your head, well lets just smile and nod at those uneducated people because they have no idea just how extraordinary the brain that is housed in your head truly is. xoxo, Hunter
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Hunter FergusonHolding her Associates of Arts in Political Science, Implementing Beneficial Community Project, and having Led a Student Collaboration team at her college of attendance- Hunter chooses to blog about the world around her as well as her personal experiences in hopes of creating a Powerful group of like-minded people. Archives
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