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@Hope Hi!

It's been a while sense i felt this good! It's going to he hard, but I believe in you!

@Hope So glad to be a part of the 7Cups Community!

@Hope I learned about 7Cups through Carefirst while signing up for benefits this year. I have been learning about anxiety and mindfulness over the last year or two. I have come to realize that I too have anxiety but didn't realize it was called that. I have been a chronic worrier all of my life and I have finally decided to develop better-coping skills. I tend to bend my friends and families' ears off when I have an episode which doesn't often help. I am hoping to make some friends and learn to handle life's dilemma's better.

Hello all! Very happy to join this vibrant community of humans who care deeply for other humans :)!

@Hope I was talking to a friend about sometimes wanting someone to just listen, and they recommended this place. So here I am.

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Heya everyone ! ^.^

I'm antico, but you can call me Anna (Annie, Ann). After suffering a stress related mental breakdown, I was suffering from what first looked like mental exhaustion, but as time went on it gotten worse, ofc as a amab I tried to cope with this on my own, but it reached a point where I could barely function, luckily I have a guardian angel in a form of a very close friend who noticed I wasn't feeling well and said she arranged a psychiatrist appointment on standby whenever I was ready, about a month ago I couldn't keep a grip on reality anymore and told her I was ready. We went in and after a 2.5 hour session the preliminary diagnosis was gender dysphoria. It was a hard pill to swallow at first, I wanted to hear I was depressed, that I'm gonna take some meds, go into therapy, and things will go back to normal. Unfortunately this isn't a sickness, there are only 2 ways out (basically 1 to be honest), you can either accept it or not (which obviously isn't really an option). I knew from an early age that something was off, but gotten very good at pushing those thoughts to the back of my mind, yet since the mental breakdown all those barriers had crumbled and all those bottled emotions and thoughts spilled over like a broken dam, and I had no resolve to push them back. The doctor said that my female mind is at war with my male body, and recommended I seek a therapist to help me resolve this inner conflict. I'm in my 30s, so I got a bit going on in my life, I don't know how will this change affect my professional and social life.

Apart from that, I'm a massive nerd, been playing various MMOs for over 20 years, wristwatch collector (I got 5 different timepieces and plan on buying more), whisky connoisseur (got over 30 different bottles of various single malts), Formula 1 fan (Max Verstappen fangirl) and metal fangirl (djent anyone ?)