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It’s Okay: We’re All Crazy Where I Come From
Family background, heredity, learned behavior, nature versus nurture. My parents really hate when I link my deficiencies (shall we say) to their personal habits, the examples they set, and their...
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Ecckk! Who Knows I Have Anxiety?!
Who knows and what do they think about me?? That’s what I think of when I consider how my anxiety affects my relationships. I’ve chopped them up into groups: 1. Nobody Knows Group. People I work with,...
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Self-Depreciating Statements: Covert Anxiety Attack?
For the last couple of days, I have been noticing how often I put myself down in front of others. Embarrassingly so. I’m a little ashamed to admit it. I didn’t know that I could be so mean to myself in...
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Anxiety in a Snapshot
I’ve spent the last several months feeling like I’m making no progress at all, feeling stuck, overwhelmed, just beaten up and worn out! My (concrete) timeline with my anxiety spans over three years,...
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New Mantra: I’ve jumped out of a plane!
Two days ago I went skydiving. Yes, this girl, havoced with stress, anxiety, fear, etc, jumped out of a friggin plane! I’ve had a spectacular past week with my anxiety and myself. But, unfortunately,...
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Bad Acting
This post falls neatly into the concept of things I should have learned in college: I should have taken a year or two of acting classes. While in my teaching prep courses, I had heard the phrase,...
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Perception is reality. I call BS.
Perception is reality is something some people like to follow up with after saying something somewhat negative. I think they are wrong. And I think they’re kind of jerks too, but maybe they don’t...
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Challenging Irrational Beliefs: Let’s Give It a Go
I titled my blog “Savannah Lately” because I wanted to blog about my progression through life, from my strange perspective. But now I find that anxiety is peeking around every corner, spying,...
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It’s All in Your Head
Lately, my anxiety has been one odd duck. I’ve been having a few “normal” days here and there, hence then lack of writing, but I’m still struggling to understand myself and the thoughts that I have....
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Journey Down Crazy Town: the Path I Take Towards My Mental Recovery
Today is Mental Health Blog Day. Crazy. Loony. Mentally ill. Depressed. Bipolar. Crazy. Call it what you want to call it, but I struggle with my mental health every day. The social stigma attached to...
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And would you like some hypochondria with your coffee?
In the realm of anxiety, where all things live and prosper, there is a place for hypochondria. I don’t think that I would openly admit that I’m a bit of a (self diagnosed) hypochondriac, but I would...
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You’ve Got To Be Joking…
“Many mental illnesses would go away or be less complicated if we could get people off birth control.” – Dr. Deanna Osborn, of Arbonne makeup and health supplements company. The above quote is what my...
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The Great Realm of Anxiety
Tonight I find myself wondering, how much of my negative feelings are directly caused by my anxiety? Sometimes I feel like my therapist is keeping secrets from me…like maybe I have some other disorder...
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Work Anxiety: the volcano that blows
I am a teacher and today is the last day of school. Well, I have to go in on Monday, but today was the last day for the students. I feel like I have a heavy weight lifted off of my shoulders that...
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Summa-summa-summa time! Anxiety!
Summer is here, which means I have about the next 8 weeks to relax and take my mind off of work. Work has been the biggest trigger for my anxiety, if not the catalyst of my anxiety. I’ve made a “no...
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Dr. Google and Little Ol Me!
I am writing today because even though blogging is on my to do list, I would much rather spend time with Dr. Google and find out if I have borderline personality disorder. Just a disclaimer: the rest...
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Falling Off the Wagon: The Game Everybody Plays
Everybody falls off the wagon and the last month has been my turn to be drug behind it. This phrase typically refers to addicts, but aren’t addicts just people trying to change a difficult, unwanted...
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When Progress Doesn’t Feel Like Progress….
A year ago I started therapy. In session number one, my therapist immediately identified my extreme anxiety. I would describe my anxiety as my inability to cope with potential future events, due to my...
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Getting Out of a Funk
I’m in a funk. My therapist thinks I’m depressed. I’m not really sad or anything, not more than usual. I just am either tired of EVERYTHING or really neutral about everything. I feel like I’m manic...
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On the Topic of Sleeping….here’s a funny story
I sleep like crap. You name it, that’s how I sleep it. Along with my hypochondriactic addiction to google, I’m pretty sure I have a number of sleep disorders! some of which are directly caused by my...
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