1. Your lip or nailbed will bear the brunt of your inability to effectively deal with your worries.
2. What If? is the stupidest question in the world, and has no actual answer.
3. Little things will worry you more than big things. Little things will annoy you more than big things.
4. Your ability to fall asleep, and stay asleep, will be compromised. And on the one night you are tired enough to go to sleep, your partner will snore.
5. People who you barely know will ask if you are okay.
6. People who have enough on their plate as it is will be the most caring.
7. You will be prepared to try various therapies that are both painful and expensive in an effort to be rid of this state of mind.
8. The worst anxiety attacks are the ones where you can not even work out what it is you were worried about in the first place.
9. Things you ordinarily found fabulous and fun will suddenly become as scary as speaking in public, naked.

10. But most of all, I know that having a supportive partner, family and friends, and getting through each day as it comes, is the best and most effective way to deal with items 1 – 9.

PS Kerri Sackville wrote a list today too, Things I know about Therapy. Check it out here.

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