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Personal Narrative: My Experience With Anxiety

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I decided to talk to my mom about it, and afterwards I was glad I did. My mom told me that she also dealt with anxiety for a long time when she was younger. She gave me advice and really helped me out. And although my mom was very helpful about everything; my anxiety just got worse over time. I continued having anxiety attacks and they were escalating quickly. Almost anything would trigger me. It would start with shortness of breath, shaking hands, a painfully beating heart. My limbs would fall asleep from hyperventilating. These attacks would almost always happen late at night, when I was alone just worrying about every little thing. And I mostly kept them to myself. At one point I just decided I couldn’t handle it anymore. I knew I needed

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