The Nature Of Anxiety

You know the feeling you get when you are faced with your worst fear? Weather it is a spider or being held at gun point it is sheer terror in your eyes. This is how my day would start every morning since I was twelve. I would feel as though I were being chased by a 300 pound bear, everything seemed ten times worse in my eyes, everything was terrifying.
"An abnormal and overwhelming sense of apprehension and fear often marked by physiological signs by doubt concerning the reality and nature of the threat, and by self-doubt about one 's capability to cope with it." Webster likes to refer to this as anxiety disorder, I prefer to call it my monster. I was a prey to a monster called anxiety. Anxiety feels as though you are drowning and are unable to swim to the surface become you are bound by the ankles with weights. It limited my ability to be a normal teenager, to hang out with my friends, and have fun at my senior prom, or even go out on a date. I was often the quiet girl in the back of the class or the wall flower at school functions. Rather than having a good time with my friends I was forced to play a dangerous game called anxiety, in which …show more content…
I no longer wanted to be a prey in this game. My parents have always encouraged me to never give up and to keep fighting, they reassured me that one day this will make for a great testimony. I eventually did find someone who truly does love me and is pushing me a little more every day to help me get better and more comfortable with people. Although anxiety is still a game that requires my attention every now and then, I have learned how to better control it and to give it all to God through my worship, because one day I will be able to turn my dangerous game into the greatest