You feel like you're drowning, but you're not even near a body of water. Your chest feels like it's caving in and your breathing becomes more and more labored as your stomach churns and your head throbs. You tell yourself that it's OK, you'll survive this. But your mind seems to be screaming negative thoughts over it—you'll never make it through. You're crazy. You don't know how you let this happen again. You can't decide if you want to cry or scream so you just sit in silence, staring, looking like the calmest person in the world while a hurricane is brewing inside of you.

What are you freaking out about though? The first day of school? Starting a new job? Going to an unfamiliar place? Testing? Waiting on a text back? Actually, you're probably not entirely sure.

Now that you have a visual image, would you want to deal with that on a daily basis? To feel like your mind is controlling you and you've gone crazy and spiraled out of control? Probably not, but thanks to social media, many people do.

Through social networks such as Tumblr and even Facebook, the word about anxiety and panic disorders has spread rapidly. No, not necessarily informing the public of the disorders. In this case, glorifying the disorder. What started as a way to empower those that suffer from anxiety and panic attacks—something to help these people understand that they are not alone—has evolved into glorifying an illness. Suddenly, having anxiety is "beautiful." It makes you "strong."

I scroll through Twitter every now and then and find my followers are almost always tweeting something along the lines of, "my anxiety is so bad right now." I'll tell you one thing—those panic attacks are the furthest thing from beautiful and you feel like the weakest person on earth when you're in the middle of one.

There is a difference between being nervous and having a diagnosed anxiety disorder. Those who have anxiety disorder experience these kinds of attacks every single day, usually without reason. To be anxious or nervous about something happening in your life is normal, and believe me, nothing that needs to be glorified.

Social media is an amazing tool, so we should use it to communicate information and even glorify some things. When it comes to anxiety though, what should we glorify? Speak highly of the ones who are surviving. The ones who are terrified to take a step out of their comfort zone but push through the panic and do it anyway. The ones who recognize their issue and instead of bragging about it or pitying themselves, find methods to make it less of an influence on their quality of life. After all, that's what this whole social media movement was for in the first place. These survivors are the "strong" and "beautiful" that we should be glorifying, not the illness.