Anxiety is robbing me of my full potential

It comes without any warning, without any regard for an individual and takes what it wants. once it starts, it looks for ways to manifest even more control. it is stealing your life away from you. The ironic thing is that anxiety is really there to help us, not be out enemy. It is supposed to sound an alarm when true danger is approaching us, giving us time to run away or go to your safe place until we are in the clear. but the reality is, there rarely isn't anything dangerous happening. for a sufferer of anxiety, it lurks in the background and rears its ugly head with full force when there really is no need for it until you're left paralysed or on edge for no reason.

Although anxiety has been somewhat a hinderance to my life (i mean i'd love to know exactly what my body is hoping to achieve when it decides that the most helpful response to anxiety is to give me pins and needles in my head), I can't help but try and find a positive in all this, its allowed me to find my own strength. when you're in a bad place, you can't help but feel everything is on top of you and ignore the fact that just getting through the day is an accomplishment in itself. I just have to keep reminding myself that anxiety is just anxiety. just a state of arousal that I can decide whether its justified in keeping me on alert. I have the last word. me.

It's not going to be easy, I have to work incredibly hard at putting anxiety in its place. I have to repeatedly tell it that I am THE boss.