I’d reach a boiling point of not being able to take on my partner’s newest batch of anxiety. I started to just shut down when I could sense him creating all of these fake things that he believed had gone wrong in the social dynamic. So I’d start to be cold and dismissive of him. But then I’d feel terrible because, hey, he took this time to be with my family. And he can’t help his anxiety.
We all experience anxiety to an extent. However, approximately 40 million adults are living with an actual anxiety disorder in the United States. There are at least eight different types of anxiety disorders, but one of the least talked about and most misunderstood is social anxiety disorder. People living with social anxiety carry the burden […]