Always Anxious? Here’s Why I and So Many Others Turned to Mental Health Apps Just to Breathe
I don’t remember the last time I felt truly calm. Not “ I just finished a yoga class,” calm. I mean the calm where your shoulders aren’t permanently tense, your heart isn’t racing at midnight for no reason, and your brain isn’t cycling through every conversation you’ve had in the past week, wondering if you said something wrong. I’m 32, I’m a millennial, and most days, it feels like I’m just surviving. The world we were handed wasn’t exactly built for peace. We were raised to chase success, to grind harder, to earn rest. We internalized hustle culture like gospel, until anxiety became part of our personality. And then one day, I woke up and realized I didn’t know how to function without it. That was the moment. The quiet breakdown. The internal collapse that no one else saw. And it was enough to make me try something… something might help me feel even a little bit normal again. Therapy sounded like a luxury. Not just financially, but emotionally. The idea of sitting a...