My Anxiety, Part I: The Origin Story

A peaceful sunset in the place that was once my second home | photo by Jen Sullivan

In an attempt to explain my anxiety to my husband, I searched the internet for effective ways to do this and found a lot of useless information that was more often about positive thinking than actually living with anxiety. However, I did come across a few articles written by people who suffer from anxiety on the level I do — real people with real anxiety trying to explain what it’s like to live with this type of mental…