You’re probably already anxious reading the title of this article because let’s be honest, parents aren’t always the most understanding people in our lives. It’s safe to say that our feelings aren’t always the biggest importance in their lives. It’s okay! You’re not alone, we feel it too! Here are some things we wish we could tell our parents about what it’s like living with anxiety.
You hang out with your family and friends having a wonderful time then suddenly; all these thoughts start flowing out of nowhere and you’re sitting there all quiet because your anxiety kicks in.
Mhm, yeah, I think we’re all guilty of this. When our parents are interrogating us and we have these worries of why they’re not answering our texts and or calls, we go into panic mode and think something horrible happened but then two minutes later they just said they went to the grocery store.
Our parents ask us why we’re so grouchy then happy the next… but it’s because our thoughts are keeping us up all night and then when they finally go away, it’s already morning.
There are so many things that are happening in our lives and although it can be extremely overwhelming, these thoughts are actually insecurities and frustrations which turn into stress. I’m not just worried, but I’m also stressed and depressed…
Your parents already told you to wash the dishes, sweep the house, fold the clothes and now all you want to do is sleep, but they think you’re just being lazy. You’re overwhelmed with all the energy that you don’t already have but you’ll pretend to have anyways, so your parents won’t ask you any questions.
You wish you cared about what everybody else was going through, but you’re too caught up with your own thoughts, how others perceive you and oh right, “I have no friends.”
You finally express how you feel to your parents… then they rush you with a bunch of positive sayings and attributes trying to help but it’s not the kind of help you want right then and there.
You come home from school or work and you look tired then your parents ask you, “what’s wrong?” and you sit there already breaking a sweat because your anxiety kicks in, so instead of telling them, you just say “nothing.”
I’m not procrastinating, my anxiety is seriously crippling me so that I do not have the energy to do anything but stay in bed. That’s just what it’s like living with anxiety
It’s extremely difficult to stop overwhelming ourselves and it can sound so ridiculous to our parents when we’re worried about our math test score when we all know that we may be amazing in mathematics, but there’s still that 1% chance that we can fail. A lot of people don’t understand what it’s like living with anxiety.
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