Let me introduce myself

I've always been a Type A personality, but I didn't really realize it until a few years ago. A serious achiever, I graduated high school early and met my first boyfriend in college. I grew up in a dysfunctional family, with a verbally and physically abusive father who was an alcoholic, and a mother who was very loving and nurturing, but whose actions when I was young led to my becoming a doormat for people as I became older. I realize now that my mother only wanted to "keep things quiet" because that was the generation she grew up in. People didn't make a lot of buzz about their business; that was too shameful. So, when I was approached and/or molested, my mother thought it best to just keep quiet. Every time she made that decision, it made me feel like I wasn't worth standing up for. So I never stood up for myself. Until now. Now, I have a story to tell, and I'm ready to tell it. It's about life and love, anxiety, relationships, dysfunctional families, obsessive compulsive disorder, and everything in between. You will laugh, you will cry, but most of all, you will know that YOU ARE NOT ALONE!!! And you will know that you are NOT your disorder. Stick around. I'll be back VERY soon with a blog about the first day that my anxiety reared its ugly head.