Anxiety Research Paper

The one specific thing that sets me apart from other people is my moderate and highly inconvenient anxiety attacks. I am not vain enough to think I’m the only person in this world to suffer from this annoyance. However, no one experiences these ‘attacks’ the same way I do –everyone experiences these differently. This is not some 1950’s made-up social disease, anxiety is a very real and very intense thing. Symptoms of an anxiety attack are similar to those of a heart attack. As in, you feel as if you are about to die, at that moment. In my experience, I have experienced difficulty breathing, chest pain, and loss of feeling in my toes and fingers. Also, I have experienced tingly pricks on my lips and face. And, if it’s a severe episode, I will experience dizziness and/or loss of vision. I started to have anxiety attacks when I was seventeen years old. This began due to various stressors and personal issues occurring in my life at the time. The first time I had an anxiety attack, I thought I dying. So far, second to the car accident I was in (stupid deer), it was the scariest thing I had ever experienced in my life. I couldn’t breathe, feel my hands, and my chest felt like someone had stacked bricks …show more content…
I cannot allow myself to get into ‘sketchy’ situations- which, obviously is for the best. And, by sketchy, I don’t mean drugs or anything like that. What I mean is I have to know exactly what is going on in my day to day life. Anxiety has made me a ‘planner’. If I am going out with a group of friends, I have to know where we are going and exactly what we are doing. I cannot deal with a bunch of unorganized chaos –that is all it would take to throw me into an anxiety attack. My anxiety is intensified when I am with a group of people, as well. Because, I feel disconnected from everyone. And, I never tell anyone I am having an anxiety attack, either. Because, then people to ‘help’ you and it’s a huge