Watch this short video featuring Krish, 26, Blue Mountains a small business owner & outdoors enthusiast who changed her lifestyle to better manage her anxiety.
According to Krish, her anxiety has profoundly affected her professional and personal life.
“I think I suspect that I was living with anxiety for a lot of my youth growing up, and I think it just snowballed to a point where I actually got diagnosed.
“We moved from India to Australia when I was five. Then we moved to Wollongong for a bit. I’ve jumped schools quite a bit as well, so I guess I didn’t have like one relationship for a long time. I was always meeting new people and I was very young as well. So that mixed with school, I guess, that led me to where I, where I ended up,” said Krish.
Krish opens up about their experience with anxiety, reflecting on how their family history and constant movement growing up may have shaped their anxious traits.
“So my family history of anxiety. Nothing diagnosed, nothing official. But I can see why I might get some of my anxious traits from just growing up and always on the move.
“Living with anxiety feels like I’m constantly, my mind’s spiraling. It’s bouncing between different things, different scenarios, that may not happen. It’s kind of an uneasy feeling as well,” said Krish.
If you have been diagnosed with, or treated for an anxiety disorder, please consider volunteering for the Living with Anxiety (LwA) study to help researchers identify the genes influencing a person’s risk of developing anxiety, and how well treatments work.
To volunteer, head to: livingwithanxiety.org.au or email lwa@qimrberghofer.edu.au.
