Lately I’m learning I can experience symptoms of anxiety or depression without becoming fearful that I will have a full breakdown or episode.
In fact, times of anxiety and depression are normal and part of the human experience. The problem I face is that, historically speaking, a hint of depression or a dash of racing thoughts have led me to a period of mood instability, which is hard to recover from without serious interventions.
Because of that, any sort of off-kilter mood change I experience sets off a tiny alarm in my brain. For example, yesterday I struggled to breathe.
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