The word anxiety is banded around now. I work in the heath sector and the amount of people who think that anxiety is a bad thing over normal things that you would get anxious over is crazy. It’s like we are constantly fighting our emotions so we hate feeling stressed, anxious and low and when we are happy we feel guilty for feeling happy!!! It’s perfectly fine to have emotions as we are emotional beings but they way she bands thie term anxiety around is so unhealthy And she is not a anxious person at all In a debilities way. I also hate how she is a ‘mental health advocate’ and helps people with mental health issues. Yeah behavioural activation is good and helping people to activate their lives and keep busy is good. But also a lot of people compare theimself to her which leads to them feeling despair as they cannot afford the things she has and is gifted!!! But she doesn’t care as long as the money keeps rolling in.In order to stay relatable and real she uses normal day to day thoughts as an example of her “mental healf” struggles. All those thoughts she listed...basically every mother would be thinking the same. No parent would be standing on the platform like “Yep. Completely silent mind right now. Thinking about nothing”
She’s one of these people (who I can’t stand!) that thinks anxiety = normal nervous feelings. She’s going to be on TV? Anxiety. She’s going to a business meeting? Anxiety. She’s going on holiday for the first time with her baby? Anxiety. It’s a buzz word for her. Of course it presents in many different forms. I’m luckily over the worst now but at my peak I was very high functioning. I could be the loudest girl at the party saying the dumbest tit (wasn’t just my brain telling me that it really was verbal diarrhoea) and that’s how it presented in me. Dying inside but talking a million miles an hour to people who wanted me to go away. So I can’t say as it’s not my place that she does or doesn’t have anxiety. I just know she uses it as a replacement word for nervous constantly and realised that in this day and age it can actually bring the money in.