Bethany Seely
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I am an insatiable reader who has had the urge to write since childhood. Life took over for a while, but I am working on getting back to my writing.
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On leaving the first time
I was 18 and was finally stepping out into the great wide world on my own. Oh sure, there had been mini forays leading up to now, fueled by questionable connections made on the internet, but this was the first without the immediate safety net of family. I had messaged with my future roommate in the days leading up to move in day, and thought that I knew what to expect…but more on that in a bit.
By Bethany Seely2 years ago in Chapters
Finding Myself
I have been fighting my brain since I was 8 or 9; that's about how old I was when I first journaled about feeling like my brain was wrapped in a fog and I just couldn't even THINK, let alone act. That started a long road of knowing that I was different from the people around me but not knowing why. I became very introspective, which just fed into my anxiety. My teenage years and first romances sparked a rollercoaster of highs and lows, and I started experiencing physiologic symptoms with my anxiety. A fight followed by my long distance boyfriend ghosting me would result in a day of vomiting followed by 2 days of sleeping. Severe stress/anxiety would result in the loss of 3 functional days. I began to recognize the pattern and identify signs; being unreasonably chilled was the first major sign that I was entering crisis territory.
By Bethany Seely3 years ago in Psyche
