I was in my early 20’s when I started getting anxiety, although I had some issues as a kid. At the age of 3 I had alopecia, I wouldn’t sleep, and drove my parents round the bend, I was put on barbiturates, I also had an imaginary friend, and wet the bed.
I always felt like I had to protect my parents from certain things, that happened in my life, even when I was wee. I was always scared of being abandoned too, I hated when they went out, I wouldn’t sleep till they came home.I fell pregnant at 17, and didn’t tell anyone until I was 7 months.
I had always had horrible thoughts about my mum and dad dying, or my wee brother, it was scary. I had gone to bed one night, and woke in the early hours of the morning, with no feeling in my left side of
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