Dear Adrian Gallardo:

Regarding the album- I didn’t hear of it until you mentioned it. I googled the lyrics after reading your thread so to try to understand you better.

Regarding your question as I now understand it to be: How long did my anxiety, intrusive thoughts, clenched jaws, last?

My answer: fifty years or so, and going. But much improvement made. It started when I was a child, continued into teenage years- lots of obsessions and compulsions (like counting, touching things, walking forward and backward, reading again and again, the same sentence, and many more). Less compulsions since I was thirty or so. I took lots of psychiatric drugs for 17 years which changed how I felt but did not at all improve my life. After the drugs, when I got off them all, three years ago, I experienced a lot of anxiety. But psychotherapy helped me to manage and heal from more and more of it, over time.

anita