Being a vegan when you have anxiety can be hard. Sometimes, the anxieties that come with a vegan lifestyle just won't go away.
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Why Being a Vegan Gives Me More Anxiety

Although I’ve lived with mental illness my whole life, I am not a medical professional. If you need help finding a mental health care provider, call 1-800-662-HELP (4357) or visit BetterHelp to talk to a certified therapist online at an affordable price. This post contains affiliate links. You can read my full disclaimer.

Being a vegan is so much easier than it was when I started my journey when I was just 11 years old. I only knew one other vegetarian in middle school, and now I get to see things labeled “vegan” on packages at the grocery store. It’s beautiful how much more accepted it is now.

However, I am still constantly judged for my decisions. 

And even though I haven’t eaten meat for over half my life, the anxieties that come with this lifestyle just won’t go away.

Early Signs of Childhood Anxiety
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Early Signs of Childhood Anxiety

Although I’ve lived with mental illness my whole life, I am not a medical professional. If you need help finding a mental health care provider, call 1-800-662-HELP (4357) or visit BetterHelp to talk to a certified therapist online at an affordable price. This post contains affiliate links. You can read my full disclaimer.

I felt like no one could understand my tears. I couldn’t justify my fears, and I felt like I was a big burden. But I was just a kid.

Before I began to understand what I was going through, I had no idea what anxiety was. Everyone just thought I was a big cry baby. Everyone thought that I had anger problems. No one knew how to handle me, and all that did was make situations worse.

My anxiety kept growing more and more, and by the time I hit middle school, I felt like a prisoner in my own body.

I’m 22 now, and I’ve experienced nearly every type of anxiety disorder in the books. Let’s not even mention my struggles with depression and self-harm.

But I decided to get rid of all my shame, and I’m marking this year as the year for change. Self-improvement. Self-acceptance. Self-love.

In order to heal, I had to dissect every part of myself to fully understand who I was and who I came to be. And I discovered a lot about childhood anxiety.

Video games have helped my depression and anxiety over the years. There are so many benefits of playing them on a regular basis for our mental health.
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Why Video Games are Good for Our Mental Health

People who play video games are often coined irresponsible, lazy, and childish. And, ya know, us gamers are most likely to be more violent than those who don’t play video games. But have y’all even checked the media lately?

Guns. Racism. Violence. Nearly every movie has some type of violence in it. Nearly every music video is sexualized. We can only be sheltered from the world so much.

I’m a firm believer of love not war, and I’ve been playing video games since before I could write simple sentences.

Some of my first memories were playing RollerCoaster Tycoon, Worms Armageddon, and Heroes of Might and Magic at my grandma’s house. It’s how I bonded with my family.

Flashforward all these years, and I still believe that playing video games is one of the best ways to entertain ourselves. Plus, there’s something ultra sexy about watching my boyfriend be competitive. Even though he is a little know-it-all.

If that’s not enough, video games have helped out my anxiety and depression tremendously over the years.

101 Everyday Anxiety Triggers
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101 Everyday Triggers of Anxiety

Although I’ve lived with mental illness my whole life, I am not a medical professional. If you need help finding a mental health care provider, call 1-800-662-HELP (4357) or visit BetterHelp to talk to a certified therapist online at an affordable price. This post contains affiliate links. You can read my full disclaimer.

Anxiety is induced by triggers. 

From anxiety-induced tantrums as a child to being triggered by my boyfriend, there has never been a day of my life where I wasn’t faced with some type of anxiety. And you know what? Shit gets hard.

But I know I’m not alone.

Many of us are faced with triggers every single day of our lives. So what else do I do but compile a list of all my personal battles?

Most of these triggers I like to avoid like the plague. But some of these triggers are actually things I really enjoy, so it’s a constant battle for me. I know many people I’m close to also struggle with a lot of these triggers as well.

Here are 101 everyday triggers of anxiety:

I've learned that all overthinking does is kill our happiness. Here are 5 ways to stop overthinking and keep your happiness:
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5 Ways to Stop Overthinking Every Single Damn Thing

Although I’ve lived with mental illness my whole life, I am not a medical professional. If you need help finding a mental health care provider, call 1-800-662-HELP (4357) or visit BetterHelp to talk to a certified therapist online at an affordable price. This post contains affiliate links. You can read my full disclaimer.

Overthinking kills our mind. We become mush because of it. It turns good things bad and bad things worse.

It’s made me second guess my relationships with the people I care about. It’s made me question the future I have with my favorite man in the world. Overthinking has even made me question my life.

A huge contributor to my constant overthinking is my struggle with anxiety. Half the time I think I’m just thinking until my boyfriend points out that I’m thinking way too much. He tells me all the time that it’s not good to overthink all the time.

Along my journey, I’ve learned that all overthinking does is kill our happiness. To combat this, here are 5 ways to help yourself keep your happiness:

5 Reasons Why You Should Stay Off Social Media
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5 Reasons Why You Should Stay Off Social Media

Social media is the plague.

It threatens our time, our relationships and even ourselves.

So many studies have proved that social media is harming us, but why are we still so engrossed by it?

That’s because once we become involved with it, it’s incredibly hard to get rid of. It’s everywhere we look. On our phones, our TVs, and even on the billboards we pass on the highway.

I only use social media because I run this blog and I can reach so many people I wouldn’t have been able to help otherwise. Other than that, I stay clear of it. Here’s why: