The fear and constant sick in the guts feeling that something bad is hiding around every corner was a daily occurrence. From the smallest of tasks to the largest I felt as though I couldn’t breathe some days and the prickly hot feeling that coursed through my veins was like liquid fire. I had constant shakes and still as I write this my leg is bouncing around like a Land cruiser on a gravel road.

It wasn’t until I had my first panic attack that I had realised that something serious was happening. I just believed that everyone felt this emotion but I never seen people passing out and gasping for air as I was with beads of sweat trickling down my forehead.

But the things I had found in order to battle this unseen fear was a massive surprise for me. I found sitting and meditating, focusing on what is physically around me at that point in time put me in a trance that I could finally regain my breath and know I was going to be okay.

I also found making myself comfortable with being uncomfortable was a big step forward in my anxiety journey. I used to be shy walking into a mates house or a party and think “why are they looking at me?.”

But I found the more I thrust myself into this new found world of being comfortable in my own skin and doing things I wouldn’t normally have ever done made me the person I am today, I can go out on the street and start a conversation with a random person. I could get up and deliver speeches etc, I wouldn’t have got this far without identifying the symptoms of anxiety and doing my research about ways to combat it.

We are all here for one another, feeling anxious? Please waste no time in keeping this pit inside your heart and stop fearing and start living.