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20 Things Your Friends With Anxiety Wish You Knew

 

11. We take “self-conscious” to a whole new level.

Has a casual encounter ever made you cry? If not, you have no idea what we’re going through.

 

12. We swear Matchbox 20’s “Unwell” was written for us.

“We know they’ve all been talking about us and it makes us think there’s something wrong…with us.” Sigh.

 

13. We feel the same way about “Let it go.”

Don’t let them in, don’t let them see, Be the good girl you always have to be. Conceal, don’t feel, don’t let them know…”

 

14. It is nearly impossible to “live in the moment.”

We are constantly either reliving the past or foreshadowing the future, there is rarely an in between.

 

15. We’re not whiny attention seekers!

We don’t want special treatment of any kind. We know that our Anxiety is our problem, not yours, and we are doing our best to deal with it. In fact

 

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Mar-li Pitcher

Mar-li can't decide whether or not she's a native New Yorker; she was born in San Francisco and is very proud of that. She has also spent the last 10 years living there, however, she was raised right here in the Big Apple. When not trying to decide which coast to claim (or deny) Mar-li is usually writing; (short stories mostly) or or thinking about her cat (Frosty), or actively working on her plan to fix her life by age 40... Twitter handle: Facebook URL:

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