I feel like I wear a mask.

[efulk12345]

I come of to have the perfect life. I have amazing parents and siblings. I get good grades and I have friends. the problem is my anxiety due to this stays hidden. I don't feel like people will understand my anxiety because I have the so called perfect life. I feel like my classmates will not understand and will deny my asking for help. So I put on a mask and try to act happy and perfect all the time and keep these emotions down. Then all at once they burst out and I'm afraid I will hurt someone I care about feelings.

[fauxartist]

I'm sorry you feel you can't be open with family and friends about your anxiety, but it sounds like for some reason you feel guilty if you say your having trouble with anxiety. It has nothing to do with the fact that you have a great home life, etc., it just is that you have a condition that many have and there often is no real explanation for why or what or where it comes from, but you do suffer because of it. I would suggest you talk to a counsellor about it on how to approach talking to your family and friends about it. It's no refection on them, this is just something your quietly having to deal with, and you don't have to be alone with it. Many millions of people have one thing or another and live with it one way or another.

[efulk12345 in reply to fauxartist]

Thanks I'll try!