This week's story is my own story of being diagnosed with and learning to live with generalized anxiety disorder.
In hindsight, I can see that I've been living with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) my entire life, but it wasn't until this past winter that it became so debilitating that I arrived at a diagnosis. This week I'm sharing some of the things I was experiencing and feeling at my worst, some of the things that I've learned in therapy that have helped me, and how I've gotten to a place where I can experience joy despite external circumstances, despite also feeling anger, fear and exhaustion. My hope is that my story might help someone feel less alone in their struggle and/or recognize some symptoms they maybe didn't realize was associated with GAD.
Content warning: anxiety, episodic depression and hopelessness
