about me.
Hi everybody and thanks for taking the time to learn a little bit more about me. My name is Anne Riley and for the last twenty years of my life, I suffered from crippling panic attacks.
I’m a mother of three in my mid fifties and my panic attacks constantly took control of not only my life, but my childrens’ lives as well. I really just suffered through it my whole adult life but slight undertones were definitely abundant throughout my high school years as well.
I have to thank my mother’s neuroticism for my panic attacks. The woman was so worried that everything in the entire world was going to go wrong that I couldn’t help but take some of that mentality. Eventually, the disease took full control of my life and I spent at least one morning every week in the emergency room for no reason at all. Just because I thought I was dying. For no reason at all.
This is when I realized that all my neurotic inclinations about life had actually made my life worse than all the terrible unlikely things I could ever imagine. It took me an extra year to finally get some headway on the disease but I finally did and my it seriously feels like I’ve been released from a maximum security prison and I can have my life back.