If you have anxiety and/or depression and you are reading this blog, I hope you feel like you can connect, in some way, to my experiences and the experiences of others shared here. If you are reading and you haven't experienced the feelings and thoughts that anxiety and depression bring...you might be a little confused, skeptical, worried, afraid etc. That is okay. Until I experienced it for myself, I was extremely confused. I didn't understand why my loved ones were struggling. Why couldn't they just "get over it?"
Here are just a few thoughts for those who may not experience anxiety and depression, but have loved ones who do.
This is a start, but I would love to write more posts on this subject.
If you have anxiety/depression, what support do you need from a loved one? Or, what do you hope they will try to understand?
If you are a loved one to someone with anxiety/depression, how do you make an effort to love them?
I love #6 because I feel that way a lot. It's like you know you are being a brat and feel guilty but it doesn't stop you at the time or there are things you should be doing but just can't seem to push through that imaginary brick wall that is stopping you from doing the simplest things.
ReplyDeleteAMEN to that Janet!
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