I have really bad anxiety. I haven't left my small town in years. I haven't been on a bus for around thirty years. I basically don't go anywhere. I'm frightened every time I leave the house, find tradespeople very difficult to cope with and even waiting for parcels (I've paid for!) is extremely stressful. I take medication and still spend 99% of my life at home. Anxiety is horrendous and it can happen to anyone. But, the anxiety levels she talks about are usually completely debilitating, which is the opposite of how she lives. I can't imagine being able to do something repeatedly that terrifies me. I think she thinks she's more afraid than she actually is. Real terror and anxiety means you CANNOT do something. You have major panic attacks, you can't breathe, you shake, you cry and either are frozen to the spot or you literally run for your life. That level of fear is incredibly hard to overcome, because it happens to you, it is beyond your control. Rebecca speaks of being terrified, but doing it anyway. That is most definitely not my experience.
I think, she thinks she's really scared, possibly because of her racial stereotypes, but she knowingly creates her fear as opposed to it appearing from nowhere and knocking her off her feet and suffocating her. I literally CANNOT go in a lift, for example, because I cannot breathe, am sweating profusely and shaking, just by typing this. Rebecca would think she was terrified, but still go in a lift several times a day, for hours at a time.
As with virtually everything she does, I really resent her jumping on every bandwagon going. I resent her having this incredible life, with a beautiful home, a loving and supportive family, being fit and well, having a gorgeous baby, seeing the world etc etc and still moaning. I'm not saying her life is perfect, but I would really like her to stop pushing her mental health agenda, as it feels contrived. I think she wants everyone to believe she has PND. Part of me thinks she actually wishes she really did have it. I wonder if this is a ruse to stop Ben pushing to have more children. She's having to share the attention and it's clear she doesn't like it. There's only one baby girl and that isn't Freya. I'm sorry if I sound mean, but she really has no idea.