Rebecca's Blogs

Throughout the past few decades, my challenges with anxiety have been talked over, discovered, misunderstood, pondered over and so forth. Psychology and the understanding of life science, in general, have also come a long way in thirty years. Nowadays many of my current and recent therapists have advised me to do mindfulness exercises.

Personality quizzes are often perceived as being a popular activity for teenagers and not for people like myself who are older. A fair few even regard such activities as damaging to one’s psychological health.

Countless numbers of celebrities are reported to have depression in media, and we hear about friends and family members having depression in social media too! However on a sad note we ourselves are experiencing depression far more often in today’s busy and less emotionally focused world than ever before.

I’ve frequently mentioned that I have a lot of difficulty with understanding the emotions of fellow humans, and I’ve briefly mentioned before that it tends to be slightly different for me when it comes to those of animals. Self-reflecting and analysing myself has been an activity that I have liked to do for all of my life.

For my entire life to this day I have experienced constant anxiety that cripples me greatly (in regards to my emotions and mind) if I don’t do anything about it when needed. Anxiety is horrible to experience. It’s extremely painful emotionally, provides negative thoughts that quickly escalate to a crucial level, and it also brings me physical pain in my heart and throat...

Throughout Rebecca's entire life to this date she has frequently experienced anxiety as well as occasional bouts of depression. As a result of that she has been in therapy since she was three years old. So it would seem at first glance that emotions are something completely familiar to her. ....