(Trying) To Cope With SAD Syndrome

For a long time, I never talked about my mental health conditions.  There is still a lot of stigma around mental health issues so when I was growing up in the 80s and 90s, it wasn't something you talked about. It took until my early 30s before I actually started to admit to people what I was going through.  I've even written pieces about suffering from anxiety (Have You Met My Friend, Anxiety and How I Live With My Roommate, Anxiety). So, let me tell you about coping with SAD.

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How I Live With My Roommate, Anxiety

Firstly, this was not the post I had planned on writing, however, things keep conspiring against me.  Soooo... instead I'm going to write about Anxiety. This has been on my "To Blog About" for a while but it's not a comfortable topic for me.  I have suffered from extreme social anxiety for....ever and while I have learned to manage it better it still makes me uncomfortable to talk about. In fact, my anxiety is such an uncomfortable thing that when I talk about it in real life, it sometimes comes across like a separate person. As if I need to separate myself from it. Yes even here on the page of typed words it makes me stressed.