At My Wit’s End

[Worrywort626]

I have had anxiety and panic disorder for the past 23 years. It’s all I’ve ever known, really. Does anyone else feel like their anxiety and fears have only increased as you’ve aged? I had quite a traumatic childhood and now as I raise my own kids, I think some of that stuff is coming up, subconsciously. I just feel like I have to make peace with my mental illness and always maintain but never conquer. If anything abnormal happens with my body, I immediately think the worst and panic. It’s exhausting and stressful.

[Nom-D-Ploom]

I am more anxious than I used to be. It helps to learn more about the things that worry me.

[Hidden]

My anxiety changed. The things I used to have anxiety over don’t matter any more. Now I have anxiety over different things at age 50. I’ve learned so much about my self through these transitions. I guess it will change shape again at 60 and so on.