Definition Essay On Anxiety

My anxiety goes unnoticed. I don’t have the kind of anxiety that keeps me in bed all day, or that makes me crouch in the corner when I’m triggered. Yes, I have had those days when there’s no point to getting out of bed because I know my anxiety will keep me from doing anything, or I’ve been so overwhelmed by something that I have to remove myself from the situation because it’s triggered an anxiety attack. However, the idea of people seeing me having an anxiety attack or even knowing that my anxiety is as bad as it is makes me more anxious than the crowded halls do, or loud noises do, or people in positions of authority do.

The definition of anxiety in a psychiatric sense is this, “a nervous disorder characterized by a state of excessive

Just because I’m anxious sometimes doesn’t mean that I have anxiety, but when that anxious feeling henders my daily life does mean I have anxiety. I love people, and I hate people, but I’m mostly anxious around large groups of people. When it’s just me and a group of people I already know, I’m ok, but I can’t meet new people in a large group setting. I trouble cultivating friendships because of this. I want to have a group of close friends, but I’m never the first person somebody thinks about to hang out with because I’ve said no so many times due to my anxiety surrounding the situation. A friend recently invited me to attend her youth group with her; but I had this ball in the pit of my stomach, my heart started beating really fast, and my breathing started to get uneven all because I thought about the size of the group I would be in. I genuinely felt trapped because I wanted to go and hopefully grow closer to this person, but my body was protesting it. I didn’t feel any sort of relief until my mother told me I couldn’t go because she didn’t want me driving in the forecasted weather. I wasn’t the one to say no, therefore I didn’t have to explain my unseen