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Personal Narrative: Dealing With Anxiety

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August 29, 2006 will always stick out in my life. For the first time I had to deal with something that had plagued me my whole life, anxiety. Day after day walking into school I would be crying with my mom in the school office worried about everything. I would get nervous and anxious about tests, friends, and teachers everything played a role. It wasn 't until a year later that I would be diagnosed with general anxiety disorder.
Anxiety is one of the hardest things to explain to someone who does not suffer from it. Everyone always response “Yeah I have that too”. Then I have to ramble on and on about how it 's different and how it affects me differently than you. For me, anxiety was the fear of the unknown. Not knowing what 's going to come
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