Anxiety is...

Staying up until all hours of the night worrying about something you said two days ago.

It's avoiding conversations because you don’t want to say something stupid,

A constant war in your head on how you should handle even the simplest situations,

Hiding certain parts of yourself in fear of what others think,

Holding back from doing things you love in fear of failure,

Exhausting,

Crying for no reason,

Thinking the world is ending even when it's just fine.

But let me tell you what anxiety is not...

It is not who I am.

It is not going to control me for the rest of my life.

It will not defeat me,

I will fight every day,

I will no longer live in fear.

I may have a ways to go,

Some days may be harder than others,

But I can only get better from here.