Abigail's Anxieties

Dear world,  please believe me when I tell you I'm ill. I know, I know. Looking at me from the outside I look like a relatively healthy 20-year-old woman. I don't look particularly overweight, I'm taller than the average woman but nothing too notable.  But what I need you to understand, world, is that what you see is a one-second snapshot of my life.  What you don't see is the confusion, the anxiety, the lack of motivation, the lack of emotion and the stress in my brain.  You don't see the night before where I was lying in bed wondering if it was worth getting up the next day just to go back to bed, to get up again, to go to bed again...  You don't see just how many thoughts are going through my head at any one time.  You don't see me crying, holding myself and sometimes unable to make a single noise as I try to understand what is going on around me while whatever is around me is making no effort to try and understand...

3 reasons that I love musicals so very, very much  As you may have guessed from a number of music puns I have made in the past, I really love my music but my favourite type of music is that that comes from the stage.  That's right, I'm talking about MUSICALS (insert jazz hands here). In this post, I'm going to break down the 3 reasons why I love musicals so very, very much, what some of my favourite musicals are and how they have surprisingly helped me in my quest to improve my mental health. So, let's say "hello" to all the reasons I love musicals (but my name certainly isn't elder price).  1. My grandma. Very early on in my life (around the age of 4/5) my grandma was always showing me programs from the musicals she was performing in her early 20's (I think it was around the early 1960's) and about how much she loved it. Unfortunately she was forced to stop once she married my Grandad and became pregnant with my aunt and e...