Depression.

[_sincerelynina]

I can never go out in public and enjoy myself 😔Does anybody know what I can do ? I just want be normal again

[Peacewithin1]

I feel your pain. Just keep trying. It will get better

[Devin76oh]

If I can be upfront. You want to feel normal? Then act normal.

Start doing the things hat made/make you happy. The anxiety is always there. As a matter of fact, anxiety is in everyone. It's just the level of attention we give it.

It takes time. It takes patience but ignore it. Love and love your life. I've had anxiety all my life. But as soon as I learned to live with it and not try to control it, I got much better. Do I still get that weird stomach feeling? Yes. Does it cause me to not eat. Yes. But when I'm surrounded by friends and family. If I'm exercising. Or just laughing, it goes away.

Trust me on this. Live your laugh as normal as you can. Be patient. And you'll see it goes away.

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Couldn't have said it better myself !!

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Devin76oh

You explain it perfectly, it's true we all have anxiety, it's actually there to protect us from real danger, the trouble is as you say when we allow ourselves to focus on it, there is no battle or fight to be won, just by acceptance and allowing time to pass without a fight is all it takes, once you get glimpses of the happiness you once had you realize anxiety is nothing more than an over sensitized reaction, I too have suffered greatly before I understood it, but now I've replaced the "what ifs" with "so what's" it works, your post is perfectly put, big thumbs up from me xxx

[lovedogs51511]

I'm housebound due to crippling anxiety. I know how you feel. Leaving my apt terrifies me!! I'm not working right now. I haven't been out in decades. I'm trying to go for a walk each morning and try and talk myself thru it.