Hey lozzer

I’ve lived through anxiety and depression most of my life, and the one insight into my experience is that it doesn’t matter what triggers you, or what upbringing you had, unfortunately it is a mental illness that doesn’t have to have any logic whatsoever!

For me this is the scary part, it can happen at anytime and to anyone.

However that is also the saving grace! It will disappear as quickly as it arrived. You just have to focus on getting through the here and now.

There is absolutely no shame in not being your happy self. No one can be 100% of the time, your down times are just as true to who you are as the good times. So take the pressure off, be stressed and anxious if you need to be, and I guarantee if you give yourself that level of acceptance then you will feel so much better.