I've experienced anxiety from my earliest memories, my parents said I started to have freakouts over fears and sensory issues right from the start. The earliest I remember being terrified of something and it interfearing with my functioning was around the age of 4. However, it didn't start to become debilitating until 8 when I developed OCD. When I was 15 I was diagnosed with an ED and from then on anxiety and stress started to significantly affect my education and functioning, my functioning level (despite being diagnosed with AS) is pretty low now at 25. At the moment I cannot work, I cannot go back to education currently and I have to live in supported accomadation because I am not allowed home to live with my parents and I didn't manage to maintain living independantly. I'm a fairly useless human, however I am still pushing forward. I won't let anxiety beat me!
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'For your own good' is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction- Janet Frame