When I started going to therapy for my anxiety disorder in high school, I thought it was going to be a few months and I would be back to normal.
I could not have been more wrong. First of all, what does “normal” even mean? Neurotypical? Not mentally ill? I don’t really think I’ve ever known what it is like to be normal and I’m working towards actually being OK with that.
Anxiety makes me a little quirkier than say, a completely mentally stable person, but I didn’t realize therapy wasn’t to “fix” that quirky part of me.
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