Hives

I am always someone who has struggled with anxiety from a very early age. It all started when I was a little girl when I checked on a piece of food and then I was really scared to eat certain foods which made me really tiny. Then in Transitional Kindergarton I got the stomach bug so bad that I had to go to the hospital and get an IV and it was very traumatizing. I think these two things contributed me have anxiety and my fear of throwing up. I think that another thing that affected my anxiety was that I was ADD since the whome, but wasn’t diagnosed until very late. I was diagnosed with ADD my eighth grade year, but up until that point I really struggled in school and I continued to afterward as well even with medication. Over time, my anxiety improved overtime but it is still something I will always battle. Even in college, my anxiety manifests itself in hives which I didn‘t realize why I was getting hives until I asked my doctor. As my mom said anxiety is something I have to learn to control because I am the only one in my brain that can tell myself to stop worrying. I have learned throughout my life how to manage my anxiety, but it has taken me a long time to get to this point. But I am extremly proud of how far I have come especially knowing the bad state I started in as a little girl.