Here’s a little insight inside my anxious brain. I’ve spoken about health anxiety before, but I wanted to share the reality of what it can sometimes be like. I share this because I want to be open about something that so many people struggle with. I’m not sharing this for sympathy or to be purposefully vulnerable. Health anxiety for me can be debilitating. I can go from feeling totally fine and happy, to believing that something is awfully wrong with me and I am going to die. There are very specific things that trigger me. And if I’m in a state of anxiety, the thoughts very quickly spiral. And it’s not just surface level stuff like mildly worrying throughout the day. I have panic attacks. I can’t work. I can’t concentrate. I fully break down until I’m certain that nothing is wrong. I feel really embarrassed by this. It’s an incredibly privileged thing to worry about your health when you’re a perfectly healthy young person. I acknowledge that to some this might seem a crazy thing to understand. But it’s real and it’s just how my anxious brain chooses to torture me on occasion. Anyway, I guess this share is to normalise discussing this sort of thing. Anxiety manifests in many different ways, and mine just happens to be that my brain quite often tries to convince me that I’m dying. Ridiculous as it sounds, it’s the truth. Please feel free to share with anyone who might relate. Love always ❤️