When you’ve lived with anxiety long enough, you often become a master at hiding it. Whether you have different strategies for different situations, or one go-to “mask” you throw on whatever the circumstance, sometimes hiding our anxiety is the only way to survive the day.
Sometimes though, it’s also a way to avoid how we’re feeling, and when we hide our anxiety for too long, we forget talking about it actually helps.
There’s nothing shameful about experiencing anxiety, and no matter how “good” you are at hiding it, you deserve a safe place to express it.
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