Living with Anxiety - My Personal Experience

I live with anxiety everyday. What is Anxiety? I define anxiety as when a person worries so much about something they start to develop real physical symptoms that could make you sick. When did I discover that I had anxiety? I am not really sure. I always was a quiet, shy, nervous child growing up. I never raised my hand is class. I just wanted to be invisible. I could remember as far back as elementary school the teacher would be doing a reading assignment. If I didn't know the answer to the questions I would raise my hand and ask to go the office so I could call my mom because I didn't feel good. I would go as far as having my mom leave work and come and get me pretending I was sick. I guess that is when I started having anxiety but was too young to understand what it was. Another terrible memory I have was summer sleep away camp. Boy did I hate that camp. My mom was a working mom and she would have no other choice but to send us away to sleep away camp for the entire summer. I can remember being in the bus almost at the camp and having an accident in my pants. I was so nervous about going I couldn't hold it in. I was only about 7 years old when this happened but I was mortified. I couldn't tell anyone what had happened so I took my underwear and out then in a brown bag and threw them in the woods. This couldn't be normal. But again, I was way too young too understand why I was feeling this way.