Caroline Foran

And then, as you know, in the morning, we naturally produce cortisol to wake up.

But I was, like I say, I had so much of it flooded into my system that mornings were brutal for me because it was like I got this extra dose.

I had the cortisol that I was already, that was so high.

And then I got the morning little, let's just get you prepped for the day.

And I was like, I don't need any more stimulation.

And in the mornings I would feel great.

so physically horrific and like every thought was tinged with fear and it wasn't that I was afraid of something coming down the line or of oh I'm anxious about this and if I could just solve this I'd be okay my whole world just became anxiety What did your family do?

They were really scared.

Everyone was really terrified.

I eventually just started shutting down and breaking down.

I couldn't go into the job and it happened very quickly.

I was back home with my mom, like sleeping in the same bed as her, but I wasn't sleeping, but I just needed to be near her.

And like I was 25, like scarlet like.

It was not, like none of my friends, they were traveling the world.

Everyone wanted to go as far away as possible.

Meanwhile, I'm like literally Benjamin buttoning back up into her uterus.

I'm like, please, ma'am.

No, and I still to this day...

even though I've had this history of like these periods of anxiety, I'm actually not an anxious person.

It's not something I have to manage every day.