5 Things To Know About People Who Suffer From Anxiety

5 things to know about people who suffer from anxiety:

1. we can’t relax when you tell us to. - sorry what? Im quite positive my lungs feel like they’re about to cave in, and my heart feels like its popping out of my chest, but yah know; telling me to relax will fix that in no time!
2. don’t tell us its okay - i know you’re trying to make me feel better and all but I’m not okay. I’m sweating and blacking out and as much as we both wish it was okay, it isn’t. Sometimes its best to just not say anything and rub my back and be silent.
3. We have our good and bad days, our good and bad moments and our awful aching hours. but we’re happy people. 
4. There are so many different types of anxiety that doctors probably don’t even understand or know about-from situational anxiety all the way to the generically known stress anxiety and panic attacks. Everyones different and everyone reacts and relaxes differently. We may have the same type of anxiety but were two different people. No one is the same especially with anxiety. 
5. Not even we understand it.- When you ask us why were having an anxiety most times (especially for myself) we don’t know, it just.. happens. and we deal with it in the moment. 

The Lord says to cast all anxieties onto him, which through my anxiety i have learned is all i can do. I’ve given my anxiety to the lord in my moments of attacks, and struggles to the best of my abilities. 

The most generic verse i could give you that says what i just said but in 1 Peter 5:7 “cast all your anxiety onto Him because He cares for you.”

Isaiah 40:31says this:

“but those who hope i the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint”

What that says to me, is those who wait upon the lord and serve him will have all their anxiety, pain and suffering will have it be renewed in Him and replaced with love, strength, and assurance. 

Matthew 6:34- “therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. each day has enough trouble of its own"

If I give it to The Lord, its the one thing i know will keep me sane. Breathe through each moment, gather it all in, and make the most of each breathe you take and be grateful for it. Because anxiety is just a thing, a thing we can deal with and cast onto The Lord. 

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