Reflective Essay About Stress

I have always been shy and quiet as long as I can remember but I become very anxious when there is any kind of attention focused on me. This was a struggle for me in grade school but in middle school I experienced such anxiety that I started developing physical symptoms that became unbearable at times.

In grade school I never was the one to raise my hand even if I knew the answer because it meant that everyone would focus their attention on me and it would make me feel tense and uneasy for some reason. I remember that during all the parent teacher conferences my parents became used to hearing the same thing stated by all my teachers. He is too quiet and never participates in class. I guess I never seem to mind that the teachers felt this way about me because I could not help myself, no matter how often I heard it. I was so relieved that I never had to do an oral presentation in grade school but I knew that deep down that doing an oral speech in front of the class would be the inevitable in middle school or high school.

A few weeks leading up to starting middle school I became more anxious because here I am starting a new school that was

I was relieved as well as my parents that nothing was seriously wrong. What I was suffering from was a condition called severe functional abdominal pain that is triggered by different levels of stress along with a phobia/anxiety disorder. I still worried about how I was going to get rid of the illness and still be able to function, so I was given the tools to do so. One of the tools was to try deep breathing exercises before school but unfortunately it did not work, so I felt like I was trapped with this disorder for the rest of my life. With the help of my teachers and parents I graduated from middle school but then what was I supposed to do about high