Listen, I'm an anxious girl.

It's just who I am.

I mean, I've gone through phases throughout my life.

Like, ages 3 to 10, I was very anxious.

I had really bad separation anxiety from my parents. I had anxious emotional

attachments to inanimate objects like stuffed animals.

I was constantly worried about my safety and well-being.

I was very anxious.

And then the anxiety sort of lessened

and from ages like 10 to maybe 19 I struggled more with

depression and then the depression lessened and the anxiety came back.

So for the last few years, ages probably 19 today,

I've been in an anxious phase of my life.

Now I'm hoping that maybe one day I'll have a phase where I don't

struggle with either. Wow wouldn't that be gorgeous, manifesting that for

myself, but I've been in an anxious phase for the last few years and I've gone

through many phases with my anxiety.

I have this phase where my anxiety would manifest in sort of an obsessive way like I would

obsess over something. So for example I would obsess over something.

So for example, I would obsess over whether or not someone was mad at me.

And that would cause me to have a complete meltdown.

And until I could confirm that they weren't mad at me,

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