Nov 21, 2019 | Anxiety, Childhood, Over Coffee
“I find it really difficult to invite people to hang out with me. I don’t want to intrude their life. I always feel like I’m a bit of a burden to people and I wonder if they’d be entertained enough if they spent time with me. I’m a very anxious person,...
Oct 24, 2019 | Anxiety, Over Coffee
“I developed OCD from a very early age. I used to count things a lot. I had to make everything divisible by five or twenty five. It began before I even started pre-school. I’d be calculating my steps, I’d be counting the slabs of pavement I pass on the street,...
Sep 26, 2019 | Anxiety, Love, Over Coffee
“Social anxiety plays a big role in my life. I’m quite a perfectionist. My thoughts are so perfect, but when I try to communicate them I’m disappointed. I’m coping better than I used to. I’m not as anxious as I was before. But somehow it feels like I’ve missed...
Sep 12, 2019 | Anxiety, Over Coffee, Self-love
“When I was in tenth grade, something happened that shook my reality. One day, I was sitting in the back of the class. The principal was there and was observing the teacher. I wasn’t really listening and when it was my turn to read I had no idea where we were....
