Anxiety's Eviction Notice 2015

In 2006 when I was first diagnosed with anxiety, I lost a lot of "friends" who had decided that I wasn't the same person anymore.  I would honestly love to know how they came to that conclusion.

 After the initial diagnosis, I admit, I did disappear into myself as I had no idea what was really happening to me.  One minute I was loving life next I was too scared to leave the house. So like many other, I hid away.

Slowly I realised that anxiety was only a tiny part of me, in fact I didn't have anxiety, I lived with it like a housemate that I would bump into every so often.  Once I looked at it in that way, I became more confident and slowly the anxiety pretty much vanished, until it reappeared last year, and there was me thinking I had already served anxiety an eviction notice!

As had happened first time round, people didn't know how to talk to me or how to act around me, like I was fragile and would break.  It was then I decided I had to tell people 

"Hey I am still me, I am no different, talk to me normally I won't break"

Back to 2007 and having had enough of being stuck in my hometown I decided to take a trip up north and watch my favourite football team play.  Since that day I was out and about living life normally again, yes I am pretty sure anxiety may have made a small appearance but if it did I certainly didn't notice it.  Today I am still aware of it being there but I am getting out and about again, and just like in 2007, I am getting onto a train and heading to a mental health event, on my own, in Glasgow.  It is time to face it head on.

Anxiety, I hereby serve you with another eviction notice.  You are no longer welcome in my brain or in my life. Thank you for serving your time and making me a stronger person. I no longer need or want you in my life. Goodbye and thank you.