Would like to hear your thoughts/advice!
I’ve dealt with anxiety issues pretty much all my life although wasn’t aware of what it was until a few years ago when I started suffering with panic attack’s and was signed off work for a month in total due to stress. Since then I haven’t really suffered with panic attacks but I still feel incredibly anxious at times. My problem is that I am SO frustrated with feeling this way, I aspire to be someone who is strong and who can cope with anything that life throws at me (which has been a lot over the last year or so with the death of my dad and fertility issues) however I feel so weak and sorry for myself a lot. I would hate to think of myself as a ‘snowflake’ or ‘typical millenial’ But I fear that I am due to the overwhelming feeling of not being able to cope sometimes. I always feel so awful whenever I bring up the subject to a friend or my partner because I hate them thinking of me as someone who struggles sometimes. Am I being silly? Do I just need to suck it up and accept that life is hard sometimes? Feeling especially bad at the moment because I’ve had quite a few sick days in the last six months and feeling paranoid today that my managers and colleagues think poorly of me. Sorry for the essay. Guess I just needed to vent!