Anxiety, get a grip.

Kelly Tompkins
5 min readAug 2, 2019
Photo by David Pisnoy on Unsplash

Anxiety was an abusive relationship

When I was still someone who drank, anxiety promised me just a few drinks and I would keep it at arm’s length. I could stop being anxious. But, it was wrong. The more I drank, the less I was anxious about things that mattered and the more I was anxious about things that didn’t. I could go from having negative thoughts about work to wondering why the lady at the cash…

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Kelly Tompkins

Austin,Texas sober girl. Lover of horror movies, cats, and fitness. Occasional bad poet.