I Didn't Know I Had Anxiety!💙

This is going to sound really weird but I'm going to put it out there. For the longest time I had extreme anxiety but didn't know it. I think I was over a year into therapy when I finally realized that anxiety was that running away feeling which is just bizarre. 💙

But if you've never been taught what anxiety is or what feeling anxious is or anxiousness feels like then how are you supposed to know? I didn't know that the label anxiety went with that running away feeling until eventually I put two and two together. 💙

So I just thought I'd throw that out there. I hope it's helpful for someone who might be struggling to recognize that they have anxiety because often anxiety and depression are co -occurrent. In fact it's very common for them to come together and I thought I had depression. 💙

I didn't think I had anxiety but that's before I realized that that running away feeling was actually anxiety. 💙