I am 26 years old, and I struggled with extreme separation anxiety from my boyfriend for years.
The phrase “my other half” gets thrown around just as often as “I love you.”
But what if your partner literally is your other half? What if your partner is the only person who can make you feel whole again?
With so many mental health hashtags on Instagram to choose from, it’s overwhelming to find the best, most engaging one.
Hashtags are an awesome way to find like-minded people, and Instagram has an amazing community of mental health warriors.
There are so many people who openly talk about mental illnesses, personal development, and body positivity.
I was a very messy kid, so I was shocked to find cleaning actually helps my anxiety.
When I was younger, we would even take pictures of mine and my sister’s room when it was actually clean.
I remember on a couple of occasions my mom would say, “Wow. You can actually see the floor.”
Scheduling mental health days into my routine is a huge priority for me.
I’ve spent the majority of the last couple of years learning how to love and improve myself, and I’ve never felt more eager to get better.
And even though talking about my experiences with mental illness has been really therapeutic and eye-opening for me, it has also left me feeling more exhausted than ever before.
Anxiety can add a lot of stress to your relationship. Fact.
Even though anxiety has been an everyday constant in my life since I was 11 years old, I’ve felt my anxiety severely increase due to my separation anxiety from my boyfriend.
It’s added a lot of strain on our relationship, but it has also made our relationship that much stronger.
Don’t you ever wish you could tell anxiety to shut up?
I’ve had anxiety since I was at least 4 years old, but it took until the last year or so to really try and get my anxiety in check.
I’ve spent a lot of time trying to fight my anxiety or avoiding certain things that made me uncomfortable, but that only made my anxiety worse.
