When does anxiety transform into a panic attack?
Curiously, anxiety, not depression, is a huge part of my life. There are times, that I feel anxiety is just losing control of my life, or, writing it correctly, the fear of losing control.
It's like I have all my monsters in a cage, but I keep looking at those monsters because I feel they might break the cage and get me.
Maybe it is my kid inside me, that remembers when I will get under the bed like somehow being under the bed will stop whatever was hurting me from hurting me again.
Can I be honest? I'm not sure if maybe I had a real monster, meaning, a real HUMAN hurting me, molesting me, attacking me?
I don't know why I forgot a lot of my childhood, and I can't remember one good thing about my childhood with my mother. And I'm trying, and I keep trying to remember one good thing with her, a moment of playing or smiling, or she allowed me to be a kid.
I don't know if it's a good thing to remember. The brain, our all overseer makes you forget or remember sometimes specific things.
I remember I was "the little man of the house", the responsible one, the one who was in charge of my brothers and sisters, the one who had to be an example for them.
I don't know when I lost my childhood, I don't even know if all of this that I feel, is real or not.
I am getting older, and I don't know anymore what went on in that PERFECT FAMILY that we were. I'm scared, but I'm an adult, and I suppose not to be scared of the monsters in the closet anymore, but....
Is it worth it to speak up? or to simply forget that I forgot?
My name is Jesus Guillen, and I live with anxiety and PTSD.
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