Introduction

Welcome to my blog! I’m Riley, I’m twenty years old and I have an anxiety disorder, but I try to act like I don’t; traveling Europe, jumping out of planes and jumping at all opportunities thrown my way.

I started seeing a therapist mainly for depression at the start of my senior year of high school. My depression was accompanied by incredible amounts of anxiety. That brought panic attacks, fainting episodes, throwing up in class and long nights spent awake worrying. This was after I spent a year on Rotary Youth Exchange in New Zealand where I started to see depression and anxiety affecting my life more and more. Now as a junior in college I am studying abroad in Spain, traveling constantly and hardly noticing the depression and learning how to best manage my anxiety while still living the life I want.

I am going to be writing about my various travel experiences, where I have been, what I recommend and how my anxiety affected my trip. I can’t promise, of course, that my way of dealing with anxiety will work for any one else.