New to the podcast + feeling so much validation & hope.

[SailorMoonWannabe]

Writing this intro has been giving me anxiety haha. I started writing and totally deleted it so many times. I didn't really think I ever had anxiety, but now that I've been thinking about my own mental illness... I'm pretty sure I've had it my whole life!

I started listening to the podcast a couple months ago, after a particularly fraught family trip.

I've come to the realization that I've been minimizing everything! Ignoring my ADD and any other mental illness I may have, trying to move on without addressing my issues. Pretty sure I've got CEN - listening to the Dr. Jonice Webb episode was fucking mind blowing.

I'm almost 27 and I've decided I need to open up this can of worms that is my life and hopefully make some sense of it.

Hello!

[brownblob]

hi SMW
Welcome to the forum and good luck sorting through your can of worms.

[Imissmysun]

I am 38 I think you are brave to open the whole can of worms - I am reluctant to let one out at a time - seriously think that if I let the whole can open at once I would die of cardiac arrest - way too much intense overload -

I would be like way dead - like past zombie dead or feeling dead inside - like morgue dead... the door knob would say - dude she is way deader than me...