Thanks for this @gavinthegreat! As a sufferer of anxiety myself, this topic and your post resonate with me deeply. You asked how I deal with it, so i'll paste a link to a post I wrote recently dealing with this exact topic: https://steemit.com/life/@hattorihanzo/living-with-anxiety-what-i-ve-learnt
Following + upvoted + resteem.
Thank you very much for the link, great post. Greatly appreciate the support and I am following you now too.