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Quietly Brave: A Social Anxiety Memoir

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I'm Katerina Carter, I'm 23 years old, and I have social anxiety. 

I try to be a proper adult, navigate the labyrinth of my socially-anxious mind in order to simply survive daily life and raise awareness of mental health. 

Just a brave girl on a mission.

#1 educate | 15.08.2024
#3 personal experience | 15.08.2024
#9 discussion | 02.09.2024
#15 memoir | 15.08.2024
#1 mindfulness | 28.10.2019
#10 life story | 10.12.2019

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Trigger warning: Discussing topics like general anxiety, social anxiety, OCD & emotional themes. 

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Someone New

"There comes a point where you no longer care if there's a light at the end of the tunnel or not. You're just sick of the tunnel." - Who I am doesn't matter. How I got here doesn't matter. What matters now is I'm getting help, right? That's what they tell me here. They tell me that the road to recovery feels like a terrible butt fuck, but the fact that you're on the path to begin with, is all that matters. So as I sit in this circle of fuck ups, I realize just how different I am from them. I didn't attempt suicide because my mother was a crack addict who didn't want me. My father wasn't abusive. I didn't have a sibling die in a car accident. I was never really bullied either. I attempted suicide because, for the first time in years, I thought I had found something that could make me feel again... and after not feeling much at all for far too long, perhaps I went a bit overboard