5 Worrisome Anxiety Symptoms Nobody Tells You About

Amber Gifford
5 min readFeb 2, 2021

Hi, I’m Amber, 22 and I have a Generalized Anxiety Disorder. When I first started showing symptoms, I was 14. Nobody really understood what was wrong with me. I went to therapy for the first time at 15 and the therapist claimed it was ADHD and wanted to put me on Ritalin our first session, which I politely declined.

After more therapy, from 3 more therapists, I’ve been diagnosed with GAD. What symptoms can we research? Shortness of breath? Sweating? Fast heart rate? Yes, which are all accurate, but from my experience there’s much more you…

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Amber Gifford
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I'm 22, live in Wyoming. A single mom to a lovely 2 year old boy, and I like to write.