I have had a lot of things on my mind lately. I wish I could discuss these thoughts more candidly, but there is the slight problem of the possibility that someone is always lurking in the background. And the fact that I don’t really know how to articulate the plethora of feelings that continuously flood [...]

posted by Olivia Singleton
Filed under: Anxiety, Expectations, Pictures

I feel like I’ve let things get a little out of control over here as of late. Okay, not so much as of late but as in over the past several years. The concept of self-care has been totally lost on me, but I never anticipated any sort of long term consequences. Buddy, was I [...]

posted by Olivia Singleton
Filed under: Anxiety

For various reasons anxiety has gone rampant in my life. Over the past few weeks I’ve had countless things go wrong from my storage unit being broken into to discovering that I have a serious case of iron deficiency. Apparently it has been a bit too much for my fragile mind because every spare moment [...]

posted by Olivia Singleton
Filed under: Anxiety

Since my last post about the recent unexplained appearance of panic attacks, it seems to have played a major role in my day to day life. I’ve averaged one panic attack a week for the past month and a half with varying triggers and degrees of intensity. For example, one panic attack was caused by [...]

posted by Olivia Singleton
Filed under: Anxiety, Depression

Last week I had an appointment with a physician to switch to a different anxiety medication. Due to the horrifying experience I had this summer, I was nervous to attempt switching medications again. My first attempt resulted in so many negative side effects that I decided the original anxiety medication that didn’t provide me relief [...]

posted by Olivia Singleton
Filed under: Anxiety, Depression, Medication

Yesterday I went to an appointment with a psychologist. Given that I’ve never been to a psychologist before or ever anticipated seeing one in my lifetime, I had no idea what to expect. I predicted that at some point I would be asked to talk about my feelings and then the psychologist would unquestionably say, [...]

posted by Olivia Singleton
Filed under: Anxiety, Depression, Dr. Que

Today I faced the harsh realization of just how out of control my life has become. Over the past couple of months I’ve been telling myself, “Everything is fine. It’ll be good,” as if the more I say it the more I would believe it to be true. However, today a person I respect a [...]

posted by Olivia Singleton
Filed under: Anxiety, Depression