Anxiety: A Personal Analysis

I have heard people speaking about having depression, being bipolar, or having an eating disorder, but I’m not familiar with those terms on a personal level. I am fully aware of what their definition is, but I do not know how they relate to feeling. I do not know what it is like to suffer something that is completely out of my control, so I rely on others words to get an idea of what is may be like. Your words have been the most insightful I have encountered.

My close friend, Hannah, and I have been friends with each other for as long as I can remember. In my mind, she has always been there. Both of us have always been on the quiet side, not as outgoing as some of our peers. Eventually when we reached junior high and made other friends, …show more content…
In my mind, anxiety was a feeling that everyone got when they were worried or nervous about something such as making a speech. To her, it was a word to describe what was happening to her and her worsening feelings of panic. While your novel does not deal exclusively with anxiety, a large part of the novel was dedicated to mental illness, and it helped me understand not only my views of this, but it has also allowed me to see the social bias that people seem to …show more content…
Someone could be an extremely talented writer but a mental illness such as bipolar disorder can easily overshadow. Reading your novel has allowed me to better understand this and take notice of it, and I now see how unfair it is. Those who suffer from any type of mental illness seem to be labeled with that their entire life, as if they had a choice in the matter. In Mosquitoland, Mim seems to be the only one that remembers her Aunt Isabel openly for who she was, rather than what she had. Others in the story who simply focused on the fact that she was sick and ultimately killed herself, reflect what most people in our society would do in this