I never used to have a problem with you, only recently have you started to give me issues. We used to be cool, only having problems when I had to present or had a big event coming up, but all of that changed during the end of my high school career. Whether applying for college and the doom of my future decided to plague me day and night, when I have repetitive dreams about failing tests, and when my stomach is in incessant knots, I know you are here. When senior year came, the reasons for my anxiety changed, yet you never left. Constant stressors from tests, graduation, prom, friends and everything else caused senior year to be even worse. This is true. However, it all got really bad when I started to have anxiety attacks. They were not normal anymore, they appear when I get mad or stressed out and I cannot breathe. But the worst is the impending doom of every single situation that I come across, or that could potentially happen. Most people assume that the situations have to be stressful ones, but literally trying to decide where to go to eat becomes a massive problem for me. I’m aggressive to people when they tell me what to do, or try to give me suggestions. I snap on them and it is because I don't know who to listen to or who's choice to decide. Loud noises make me angry and stressed out which is strange, but I swear a switch in my brain goes off and I freak out. I don't like being asked a lot of questions because it overwhelms me and I feel stressed, but people don't seem to get that. And as I sit here with bite marks on the inside of my cheeks from chewing them in every stressful situation, which generally is all day, I think to myself that maybe my anxiety is a blessing in disguise. Although my anxiety causes lots of problems in my everyday life, it does make me a better friend. With having anxiety, I know how to help my friends when they're going through anxiety problems or attacks. It makes me better able to put myself in their shoes. Another good reason is that I always make sure my friends are feeling well and happy because I know how bad it is to be stressed about literally everything every single day of your life. So anxiety, even though you cause me many problems, anxiety attacks and cause me very much stress, I think you're a blessing because you make me better understand the most important people in my life.