My sophomore year of high school, we had to move my grandma into a nursing home.
What can I do to help?
The thought of having to ask a question should send my heart racing and make me sweat tons. You stress me out and frighten me! That said, this meant that it started to come out during school. Intending to class and watching a horror film made me feel about similar. I’m pretty sure, that’s when I started to go downhill. Now let me ask you something. How do you say that to someone who wants to help? They will ask, What’s wrong? This is where it starts getting really entertaining, right? In truth, By the way I wanted to say YOU.
Whenever preventing me from eating anything for fear I should vomit later, butterflies will stay in my stomach for hours. That they frighten you for no logical reason. What I believe people don’t realize is the depth that comes with anxiety disorders. What that person represents, people with social anxiety need people to understand that it’s not the person they fear necessarily. Eventually, loads of people can feel like they are dying when having a panic attack. You see, it was a place of peace and tears. So this lead me to keep it all in. It was my home, my safe home. With all that said… All the anger, fear, pain, and anxiety that I felt.
It was only one place where I felt safe.
This is the reason that I did take many years without anyone knowing about how I truly felt.
The animals were a great a single place that I felt I will be myself was when I went to visit my grandma. You needed to be calm with intention to work with them. Known she lived in the country on a farm. That is interesting right? Lots of the cats and cows there had little trust in people. One without embarrassment or judgement. Yes, that’s right! One day I had a severe panic attack because of a test that day. Of course, my dean had me go get lunch while she talked to the teacher in the hallway. Seriously. My teacher looked me straight in the eye and said, It’s could be okay, your will be okay.
They just waited with my dean for me to return, I’m pretty sure I waited around the corner hoping that the teacher will go back in the classroom.
after shaking and crying in my dean’s office at school for 45 minutes.
Slowly I made my way over to them. Having an anxiety disorder is something different, anxiety is something that all people can relate to and have experienced at some point in their lives. People with anxiety are highly sensitive to the emotional status of the people around them. Just being there for someone is more important after that, trying to get the back story of their disorder. By the way, the last and most important is a calm and honest environment for student. Accept what a person wants and how they feel. However, they didn’t say them nervously but as if they truly believed what they had said. Staff need to feel comfortable when dealing with panic students. You see, the reason that I believed my teacher’s for any longer being that they were honest. Getting what the student needs to calm down it the first priority. You see, that alone was enough to make me nervous.
We also need safely.
It’s similar to a pass that students should have if they’ve been diabetic.
Now I have a pass to the nurse that allows me to leave anytime and similar students. It has reduced my attacks and made them much less severe. Print it out. It can serve as a reminder to start more conversations and stop the labeling. By signing this pledge, you’re taking a stand against the mental illness stigma. Now please pay attention. Pass it on. You should take it into account. Tape it up. That’s when I broke down.
We were all in the front of the class presenting a project when I froze and panicked.