Hello there, I’m Lauren and I come from Wales in the United Kingdom. I’m twenty three years old, just turned on August 7th, and I’ve suffered with anxiety ever since I was in bottom school. I don’t know what caused it when I wasn’t even in my teens yet, but I know that when I hit top school, it was the bullying that just...Turned me into mush basically. I have a boyfriend who lives in Nottingham, who I get to see every other month, which does help. But my anxiety is so embarrassing when it comes to going up there because I refuse to go out, I refuse to go places and I simply lay in bed for the day or just curl into a ball on the sofa.
I don’t have many friends, I can actually count on one hand in that regard. I think, personally, I’m a nice person- but it’s just that I’ve been stabbed in the back one to many times that I just...Freeze up? I’m also the type of person who gets upset or...I don’t know...Down? When a friend ignores me for others.
I don’t think I’m depressed. I battle something called body dysmphorphia and my anxiety on top of that- But I can’t actually say I’m depressed, I mean, I don’t feel as though I am? I don’t really know anymore to be honest.
This is actually a really nice group, thank you for creating it- It’s very meaningful.