My battle with Anxiety and Depression
2020 has been a tough year for us all. With the pandemic hitting across the world, claiming thousands of lives and impacting all of us with National lockdowns. However for me, someone who lives with anxiety, this has not been the first lockdown of my life. The year was 2014 and at age 15 I didn't even know anxiety or depression were even a thing although I had always been a shy kid growing up. However at this point in my life I was now experiencing a higher social status than I ever had with a new group of friends. I am incredibly ashamed to admit that this changed me. I always thought of myself as a friendly and likeable person through secondary school but with this change I became far more judgmental, harsh and even brutally abandoned one of my best friends at the time because this new friendship group, higher in the social hierarchy of secondary school rejected him but accepted me. Perhaps then it was simply Karma that this came to a sudden end with a capitulation o...