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Monkey Mind: Everyday Observations Of Mental Illness, Mikhayla Dunaj
Monkey Mind: Everyday Observations Of Mental Illness, Mikhayla Dunaj
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When I first was able to identify that I dealt with anxiety, I was 18 years old. At the time, I didn’t know how to explain it, and assumed it was only because I was in an unhealthy relationship, after already having been in an abusive one. At the end of my third year at Western Michigan University, I suffered a mental breakdown and started counseling.
The process of counseling was difficult, because as I opened up more, I realized that I had spent a majority of my life stuffing down things that were actually anxiety symptoms, assuming that it …