Dear Samantha:

I don’t think you want to be sick. I think you want a diagnosis, you want to know clearly what is wrong with you. Thing is, the anxiety you mentioned, it is physical and it is exhausting. Medicine cannot detect everything that is physically wrong with us. But non detection doesn’t mean there is nothing wrong, only that it cannot be detected by methods used.

I too was very exhausted most of my life because of anxiety. The chemicals released when anxious are very powerful and they do exhaust us, that fight-or-flight physical preparations happening so frequently are exhausting.

Animals in nature, after they run away from a predator, they rest for a long, long time, not having the energy to eat. They just lie there until they recover.

An anxious person is a person … often running-in-place, running but not moving. It is still exhausting.

When you say that your anxiety is currently under control, how is our anxiety different now from how it used to be?

anita