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If You Have “Crippling Anxiety,” You May Have An Anxiety Disorder
I’ve had anxiety since I was a small child. It was manageable until I was 16 years old, when my anxiety became crippling — i.e., way too much for me to handle. I began to have daily panic attacks and developed a phobia of using public transportation. I was scared to take trains and airplanes. Even taking the school bus began to scare me and I’d find ways to avoid going to school. I was eventually diagnosed with panic disorder.
