Courage (Definition of courage). Courage can be many things, doing something that you don’t want to, facing your fears, or even just doing something someone’s wouldn’t do. Well my version of courage is nothing like these. My version of courage is something that is chronic, and is hard to control, is internal and external, I can be huge, of just a nagging feeling. Mine is anxiety and panic attacks. They come at random or something can trigger them but they still are inconvenient, annoying, and terrifying. The adrenaline that pumps through you, heartbeat is erratic, breathing is shallow, I want to get out of the situation that this is putting me in, or run off and get my mind off of it, but sometimes I cant. It’s so hard to stay and deal …show more content…
They can last for a few minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months. Some people refer to it as fight or flight disease, and that when you mind is telling your body that there is a bear in front of you but your eyes knows there isn’t, so your mind pumps adrenaline through you in order to get away from the nonexistent bear, thus the heart beat that picks up, and the breathing to become erratic and shallow. Mind you that it’s not deadly, this cannot kill you or harm you. There are medications that are out there to control them. But some of them can make you Dorsey and even mood swings, and even cause depression. My anxiety can be triggered by a lot of things, I have test anxiety to where, it doesn’t matter what type of test it is, or how much I studied for it, I still have anxiety about it, starting about two days before. My chronic anxiety comes and goes as it please. My social anxiety comes when I’m in a crowd of people I don’t know, so I usually go quite and don’t talk to anyone, it’s really hard to get over anxiety in social situations for me. I do not take any medication, I do breathing techniques, where I take a deep breath through my nose, and hold it for 5-10 seconds, and work my way up to releasing it for