Got them butterflies in your stomach? What about that continuous annoying paranoia of someone or something about to pounce at you from behind? Do you sense, or fear of, an imaginary angry tiger on the prowl of attack? Does that slight moment within that experience make you feel like a shattered piece of class crumbling SMACK down to the floor? Feeling anxious but don't know why? You got the case of anxiety, severe anxiety.

Now, did I catch your attention?

Happy Fall, folks. Summer is coming to a close and all the fancy fall activities are coming in full swing (hence, the pumpkin propaganda). Most affiliate fall as the beginning of colorful leaves, UGG boots, sweater weather, yoga pants, apple cider (my personal favorite), and pumpkin spice lattes rolling out.

However, most don't realize that the fall season serves as one of those crucial months involving mental health focus (i.e. September: National Suicide Prevention Month). Now, fall doesn't just serve as a time of rolling out 'dem fall festivities, it's a new time to be aware, and emphasize the importance of all mental health issues; ideally anxiety.

Based on one of my previous articles, from this past March, relating to anxiety, anxiety ranges from mild, medium, severe, and fluctuating. Affecting 40 million adults in the U.S. alone today, only a third of those affected individuals are properly treated.

Treatment usually involves leanings towards endorphins (i.e. the gym, running, yoga, swimming), substances of drug abuse, alcoholism, self-sabotage, and that constant battle of man vs. him/herself. It's like a roller coaster ride and never-ending World War III Battle. A faceless mask and a crazy ass bitch about to erupt from a volcano.

In today's hectic and crazy world of history repeating itself, (especially with the latest issues of racism, gender equality, feminism, and differing political generational standpoints) mental health, somehow, has been disregarded. Matter of fact, it has been classified as an incompetent mind state; something solely in the mind.

Bullshit. It's a constant battle within one's self. Regardless of race, color, background, or creed, anxiety is of value that needs to be focused and taken care of 120 percent.

Your Anxiety Matters. It's What Brought You Here. Kick that anxiety's ass to the curb, it don't know shit.

“We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed.”- 2 Corinthians 4:8-9