What is this blog about?

I am 25 years old. As I  was excited to reach adulthood, having more or less avoided any major childhood or teenage crisis, anxiety hit me last year. It hit me hard, in the form of a violent panic attack and then it hit me continuously and perniciously in the months that followed.

Anxiety was creeping into my everyday life, making me look at life through dusty tainted anxiety glasses. Since then, I’ve been trying to better understand anxiety – and through that, myself – and how I could still try to live a happy life with or without anxiety.

In that last year, I’ve talked to many amazing people, health professionals, therapists, my family, my anxious friends, my non-anxious friends, friends of friends with anxiety, friends of friends of friends with anxiety and so on. I’ve read numerous books on anxiety, or more general personal development, I’ve consulted countless (more or less helpful) blogs, forums and articles on the internet.

This blog is a tale of all that I learned from reading, talking about and experiencing anxiety, all that I wish I had known a year ago when I first experienced a panic attack. I am writing this blog mostly as a selfish endeavor to collect all my thoughts in one place, but I also think that some of those thought and advice pieces could be useful for anyone, especially young people, who experiences anxiety or panic attacks, sometimes for the first time in their lives, and for all of those supporting friends and family around them.

I actually had to check that I was still a millennial, or whether this was before or even after my time. “Maybe I am more like Generation X, or is it Y or Z?”. This is what I found on the internet:  “A millennial is a person reaching young adulthood in the early 21^st century”. Boom. It struck me. I think this is what this blog is about, how to reach adulthood in the 21^st century and not have this crazy world overwhelms you.