To the stranger who described her struggles with anxiety and depression now as she tries to re-enter the “social world” after staying home mostly during the pandemic–

Thank you. Your words helped.

Her honesty in revealing her vulnerability and difficulty in doing things she used to LOVE to do such as socialize rang true for me.

I didn’t associate anxiety and panic with grief, but after losing two siblings in two years, I find this is how I am reacting, with much anxiety and panic over doing even simple things. Add in a pandemic and a brewing war and truly, I am in panic mode.

 

Drive somewhere I have driven a thousand times before? Yikes!

Go to a doctor’s office–which I have never liked–double Yikes!

You just never know who your words can help or harm. I am reaching out to this stranger to thank her.

 

And I thank you for reading–and happy spring!