Falling in love with my GAD diagnosis

Ivanha Paz
5 min readNov 4, 2021

And the pills that help me manage it

Generalized Anxiety Disorder sounds scary. I mean, anything with the word “disorder” attached to it feels like pretty unwelcome news.

To me, it’s a name to a problem, a plan, and a solution. But, it wasn’t always that way.

Everyone suffers from anxiety at some point or another, life events like a tough stint at…

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Ivanha Paz

Writer. Venezuelan-American living in Mexico. Once cried at a reindeer video because I forgot they were real. ivanhapaz@gmail.com Tweet @ivanhapaz