My submission to the Invisible Illness: Anxiety anthology.

"My history with anxiety is long, and it revolves around feelings of not wanting to be a bother and a terrible, paralyzing fear that if people notice I am vulnerable, they will use it to hurt me. So when I feel general anxiety or a full-blown panic attack hitting me, I tend to shut down emotionally, to safeguard myself against unwanted feelings. The downside is, I feel nothing at all, which on the long run tends to be even worse. 

I tried to depict the sequence of losing all your emotions in my piece."

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