Sympathetic to Anxiety

Adored Wife deals with a lot of anxiety issues.

This means the REST of the family deals with a lot of anxiety issues because, you know, if Mama ain't happy ain't nobody happy.

I have to confess I haven't always been as sympathetic and understanding about this as I should have been, but I'm trying to get better about it.  I've asked AW to try to describe what happens with the anxiety, and she's working on it.  She does say it's completely different than panic attacks (she has those, too.)

From our perspective, it can be difficult to live with--it does sometimes feel as though you have to tiptoe around certain issues and refrain from doing certain things because they might trigger an anxiety attack.  It can seem like the anxiety is running the household.

But it's a legitimate medical issue, like any of a number of other things we face, and AW can't help it.  This is one we're learning to live with, as a family, because that's what family does.  I'm going to be doing some homework and research on it, and AW's going to be working on helping us understand what it's like inside her head.

This is not going to beat us.  Nothing else has, and this isn't going to, either.

Hope all's well out there, friends, and God bless.