I didn't know what anxiety was. I didn't know that I was experiencing my first ever panic attack.

My dad took me to the hospital. What are you talking about? What's anxiety? I definitely don't have whatever like disease this is.

It's like this evil person in your brain that you have to tell to stop.

We're gonna be talking about anxiety today. There's just something about the summertime. I don't know what it is that brings up just like a new spout of anxiety for me. I think it's that I have like probably too much downtime when I'm alone in my thoughts too much and I have too much time to think I get a little bit more anxious. So I know that I've talked to you guys about my anxiety before and it was actually one of the first episodes I ever recorded for Hot Mess so if you guys want more context or like a way

deeper dive into my anxiety you can go back and listen to that but I feel like I

haven't given you guys an update in a while on my anxiety although it's like

much much better than it was it's still something that I deal with all the time

probably almost every day it's

something that really never leaves you so I want to like dive into all of it in this

episode I also have questions from you guys some what would Alex do regarding

anxiety and ways I could like be helpful or give any tips to you guys because I know

it's just something that like you always feel stuck like you feel like it's never going to end even as someone who's dealt with anxiety since I've been 14 years old like it's something that every time I feel it I'm always like oh my gosh is this the way I'm going to feel for like the rest of the day the rest of the week the rest of the year I just want to let you guys know that you're not alone if you're dealing with anxiety and hopefully give you some tips and tricks and I'm also gonna do my hair during this so

hopefully we can make it look a little cuter than it looks right now get ready with me

while we talk about anxiety so the four different topics that we're gonna kind of touch on

today are my anxiety and like what that looks like for me my

relationship to medication and having a good support system and getting yourself

out of this phone so starting off with my anxiety and just to give you guys a

little background on how this happened to me how I got diagnosed with

generalized anxiety disorder I was

14 years old and I actually had no idea what anxiety was it was right before my

freshman year of high school so I was getting my hair highlighted wanted to look

cute for school I don't know what it was the heat or whatever hungry I ended up

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