Anxiety is bad enough at any age in our
lives, but when we should be living our lives to the full without the full
pressures of adult life, it is, I feel, an even harder situation to go through.
This week I had a young woman come in with her boyfriend, this young woman is
an inspiration to us all. She has been battling with her childhood issues, and
severe, demobilising, anxiety, for many years now. We have been having sessions
for a few months now and making great progress, which is fabulous, and I know
this will only continue to grow for her. When we have anxiety at any age, we can
often feel that people don’t understand what is happening inside us and that
our actions will be misunderstood. We can often feel at our worst, that we
can’t fully connect with our loved ones and the people around us and we feel
unable to let them in. Also, we can feel that people may take our actions
personally and that this is something they have done, rather than our anxiety
and how we are struggling in that moment. If someone hasn’t experienced anxiety,
how can we get them to understand how we are feeling inside? How can we explain
what is happening inside at those moments? How can we get our loved ones to
help us, when we can’t seem to even help ourselves?
