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Personal Narrative: Generalized Anxiety

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I sense it bubbling through my chest, causing an eruption of butterflies in my stomach, really contrary to popular belief. My head is telling me to literally run, to get out before you make a mistake in any way. Tell them you’re unwell and can’t continue, but it’s too late for that I’m already here and you..only watching me no distractions to ward off your defiant gaze and nothing too, for the most part, stop you from paying attention to everything I generally say, man there are those butterflies once again, which mostly is quite significant. But here I am for all intents and purposes standing in front of you giving this oration today. Just like any other speech I have given, it always ends up the same, okay. But man, no doubt, at first …show more content…

But there is a type of anxiety where you can worry about the tasks in your everyday life, it is called Generalized Anxiety Disorder. It is often found when you are younger and shy away from things that shouldn’t normally worry someone. For example, when I was younger, my kindergarten teacher asked my mom if there was something wrong because I would go all day avoiding talking out loud, and I would mainly just watch everything from a distance, where I wouldn’t have to actually participate. Of course that sparked my teacher’ interest in getting me to talk, which I obviously didn’t take a liking to. But as this example is a negative type of anxiety there can also be good type. The anxiety i’m talking about can help you always have a “plan b”, in which you always have something to fall back on when your original plan doesn’t work. Let’s say that you are in charge of planning a birthday party. You decide to have this party outside at the lake, but you forgot to check the weather and the day of the party it begins to rain. But don’t worry because being the walking ball of stress that you are, already planned a second, third, fourth and fifth location for your alternate route, and planned to have it at the clubhouse in your apartment

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