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The Silent Killer

Anxiety at its forefront

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The Silent Killer

Anxiety : apprehensive uneasiness or nervousness usually over an impending or anticipated ill : a state of being anxious

Anxiety is a feeling of dread you get at the most unanticipated and unwelcoming of times. Having anxiety is hell. Going through panic attacks and handicapping spells of fear is something nobody should go through. But we do. Tons of people have anxiety. So why do we hide from it? Why are we all too scared to talk about it? So we can just keep running from ourselves, from our thoughts? Why not talk about it... why not let others know? Confide in them, find comfort in them?

So let's talk about it...

Anxiety for me, is unbearable and breaks me apart every night, and while I piece myself back together in the morning, its only a cycle that never ends. Anxiety for me, is the fear of the unknown but the unavoidable. Anxiety is a sickening feeling I get in the pit of my stomach that ends with tears streaming down my face and breath escaping my lips.

Anxiety is sitting in class, talking about historical figures, what they did, how they lived, how they died... Anxiety is that realization in the dead of night or the middle of Philosophy, that the one thing you are scared of the most in life, you cannot run away from.

Anxiety is knowing that you will be gone one day, your life will have meant nothing, one day nobody will remember you existed at all. Anxiety is wishing, hoping, praying there is an afterlife, whether it be Heaven, Hell, transcendence, reincarnation, anything but the thing you fear the most. Absolute, complete, and utter dark and nothingness, all alone, forever.

Anxiety needs to be taken more seriously by those who have it and those around it. It is not a joke, and it does ruin lives.

Do not let it ruin yours anymore...

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