Trapped in your mind: Anxiety

 Anxiety has been one of those things that haunt me every day. It's like a burglar in the night that wants to rob me of my composure and mental well-being and often times I have allowed it to do just that. It has progressed to the point where it affects my physical actions. I constantly feel like throwing up, my body aches, and let's not forget the crying because I can not stop my mind from overthinking everything and anything. A recent anxiety attack had me feeling the same way as I described above. It all started with a situation that should not have made my mind go off the deep end but it did and let me tell you, it was not pretty. The night was filled with vomiting, headaches, chills, shaking back and forth, crying, and the inability to sleep. I was up all night and as much as I tried to go to sleep my mind would not shut up and let me be. It keeps jumping to conclusions and thinking so far into the future that it amazed me that my mind could go that far. I don't know if I am the only one that gets these attacks like this but it is something that I know a lot of people go through on a daily basis. I have never experienced an attack like this before because it lasted so long and at one point I just wanted it to stop already. It eventually stopped after my body literally wore itself out to the point where I had to no choice but to fall asleep. Waking up from having an anxiety attack left me drained and not have the motivation to do anything. The upset feeling in my stomach and the overall feeling of exhaustion and irritation was starting to show on my face. This blog post is my way to share my experience when having my anxiety attack and hopefully I can hear some of your stories as well.