Obviously, I knew it was going to be busy but I hadn’t anticipated just how much it would affect me. Theoretically, all I had to do was walk across Times Square and go into a restaurant, but for me, it was so much more difficult than it may have seemed to someone else. Simple tasks for some people can be almost impossible for others and you never know how you’re going to react until you’re put in that situation and experience it yourself.
I knew before I had even got onto the plane in Edinburgh that I was going to struggle in this type of setting. I was with a group of people I didn’t know very well, in a city I had never been to before, in one of the busiest tourist spots in New York. I remember very little of what actually happened, only …show more content…
I realised how exhausted I was feeling trying to control my anxiety and I got frustrated. It wasn’t fair. There was no reason for me to feel so guilty and pathetic when I haven’t done anything wrong. Yes, my brain sometimes overthinks and panics, but I guess that’s not always a bad thing. Walking through Times Square was an important milestone for me, and I have slowly gained much more confidence over the past year. This is largely because I have the experience of walking into a completely unknown situation, in a completely unknown city, in a completely unknown country, one of the most nerve-wracking things I can imagine. Nothing will come close to being that overwhelming and that thought makes me feel calmer. You can never truly understand what another person is going through and I think more people need to understand that different people think of the same situation in very different ways. Society needs to be more understanding of people with mental illnesses as many people are overlooked and feel alone in their situation, there is more of a stigma against mental health issues and this usually stems from being unable to see them. People feel more sympathy for someone with a broken leg as they can see the physical pain they are in. This shouldn’t be the case. Mental illnesses are just as significant and worthy of attention and help as physical
I knew before I had even got onto the plane in Edinburgh that I was going to struggle in this type of setting. I was with a group of people I didn’t know very well, in a city I had never been to before, in one of the busiest tourist spots in New York. I remember very little of what actually happened, only …show more content…
I realised how exhausted I was feeling trying to control my anxiety and I got frustrated. It wasn’t fair. There was no reason for me to feel so guilty and pathetic when I haven’t done anything wrong. Yes, my brain sometimes overthinks and panics, but I guess that’s not always a bad thing. Walking through Times Square was an important milestone for me, and I have slowly gained much more confidence over the past year. This is largely because I have the experience of walking into a completely unknown situation, in a completely unknown city, in a completely unknown country, one of the most nerve-wracking things I can imagine. Nothing will come close to being that overwhelming and that thought makes me feel calmer. You can never truly understand what another person is going through and I think more people need to understand that different people think of the same situation in very different ways. Society needs to be more understanding of people with mental illnesses as many people are overlooked and feel alone in their situation, there is more of a stigma against mental health issues and this usually stems from being unable to see them. People feel more sympathy for someone with a broken leg as they can see the physical pain they are in. This shouldn’t be the case. Mental illnesses are just as significant and worthy of attention and help as physical