Personal Narrative: My Life Changing Experiences

When I was about 10 years old I would always feel my heart start to speed up and suddenly it being hard for me to breathe or catch my breath. It happened irregulary for about 2 years and I was afraid to tell anyone. It stopped for a few years until i was a senior in high school. I started to get this feeling again almost everyday. I finally went to the doctor because I thought there was something seriously wrong with me, but every time they ran test nothing would be wrong. It was starting to get really stressful for me and especially my mom because i’d always wake up at random times of the night crying or not being able to sleep much at all. After various test my doctor finally told me he thought I had an anxiety disorder and what I was having

I started going to see a therapist that helped me improve my anxiety by asking me to have a “Happy place” mine turned out being my room because it was the place i felt safest. So every time I got an anxious thought she told me to think about my place and take deep breathes which helped immensely. My family was also a huge help in getting me to go out and try new things without being so worried something would go wrong. I also cut caffeine out of my life completely which was the hardest one but it was for the best! I also started challenging my worry thoughts with everything that will come out of it and how much better id feel if i accomplished it instead of hiding from it. At the end of the day the one thing that helped me the most was accepting my anxiety and finding ways to overcome it. Being more positive and smiling and finding the good in bad situations helped me overcome my depression that came along with it. I surround myself with positive people in my life so I can nurture myself to be that way and not feel down. In conclusion, although you can not get rid of a anxiety you can do things to improve your life with it but you can overcome depression if you actually try and come up with your own methodology that fits you the