Anxiety is one of the "silent" diseases, those that nobody talks about due to a certain stigma. If nobody knows about it, what can they do??? They really cannot do much about it as they don't know you suffer from it!
I always tell people about my anxiety and they look surprised - they don't often believe I have it! I'm just your average 26 year old bloke who loves getting out and experiencing new things - things like trike touring, helicopter scenic flights and paintball to name but three! But deep down inside, there's a ticking timebomb waiting to bring me crashing down to earth at any time - doesn't matter where or when, anxiety does not differentiate between day or night! Some nights I sleep right through, others I will squirm then there are other nights where I'll get out of bed and walk around the house in the dark.
At work, anxiety presents another entirely different set of problems..... if I get a anxiety attack, I can't just walk away from the situation in which I find myself - I need to stop and calm the attack down before I end up getting hurt. I work in a abattoir as a skins labourer - if I end up having a severe attack, I could end up hurting myself on some of the machinery I work on.... and most of it is really sharp or has a risk of pinch/crush injuries! I have had a bad injury or two due to work - one was a finger which became infected so bad I could not bend it past about 20 degrees! It got so bad I had to go and get it looked at by a doctor. Turned out it was so badly infected I ended up with cellulitis! Tetanus shot and clean later, I have anxiety to thank!
Part 2 to come.....
Monday, May 30, 2011
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