Does being diagnosed with anxiety ruin your life?

Begin diagnosed with anxiety does not ruin your life. Yes, it can be a struggle, but this isn't the end of the world. You can learn to cope with anxiety, even if it feels like your life is crashing down around you. You can find coping skills that will help. You can find support systems. There are many ways that you can work through your anxiety. I will say that anxiety can only ruin your life if you let it. You must keep moving forward. This doesn't define you. You may have anxiety, but you are not anxiety, you can't believe that. Keep your head up.

Being diagnosed with anxiety in not something that ruins your life. It is simply something that you have. You can still do your everyday activities all the same, nothing changes. Thinking that anxiety can ruin your life will only worsen it. I suggest always taking a few deep breaths when you need it, and try to stay positive. Dredging up bad experiences from the past or imagining scary scenarios in the future will just heighten your anxiety. Distract yourself, meditate, go out with friends. It will help you more than you think and eventually it will be like you never had anxiety in the first place.

I assume your question relates to anxiety disorders and not anxiety, since 'anxiety' is not a formal diagnosis. There are pros and cons to diagnostic labels. The downsides to having a diagnostic label is being treated in a prejudicial or discriminatory way by other people who know about your condition, which can worsen your mental health to a certain extent. However, such treatment depends on the people you meet. If you surround yourself with understanding and supportive people and healthcare professionals, your diagnostic label should not be harmful. Diagnoses can be empowering, as your issue is recognised as an 'actual' issue, which can allow you to get the help you need in the healthcare system, secure government funding for certain things, and/or obtain grounds to receive reasonable accommodations in the workplace if applicable.