Will It Ever Be The "Same"?

Editor's Note: This story came in as a confession originally. While the original confession was only a couple sentences long, I had a feeling that she was just scratching the surface. So, I asked her to dig deeper and get this shit off her chest. Anxiety is real. It's alive and well. Like depression or grief, I think anxiety affects almost everybody at some point or another in their life. I wrote off my own anxiety as "nerves" for years. Going into an uncomfortab