{"id":100098,"date":"2021-02-23T12:49:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T17:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/?p=100098"},"modified":"2021-02-24T14:39:05","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T19:39:05","slug":"sarah-fader-on-stigma-fighters-panic-disorder-and-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/100098","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Fader on Stigma Fighters, Panic Disorder, and Recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sarah Fader on Stigma Fighters, Panic Disorder, and Recovery\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a2uTdcLEvk0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSarah Fader\r\nI am the CEO and Founder of Stigma Fighters. Stigma Fighters is a non-profit organization dedicated to giving people with mental illness a voice and it began when I told my story about living with panic disorder on the Huffington Post so I had my first panic attack when I was 15 and I can distinctly remember that day because I\r\nwas reading a comic called “Books of Magic” and so that had a profound effect\r\non me and I started to feel my heart race and I felt unable to breathe\r\nand I reached out for my mom and I said “I need to go outside right now” and I knew something was very wrong with me but I didn’t know what it was and my mom\r\nturned to me and said, “You’re having an anxiety attack” and after that anxiety\r\nattack I felt different from my peers and I felt like I had to hide what it\r\nwas like to be anxious and so I became a very good actress and I pretended to be\r\nnormal and so I was playing this role of Sarah who doesn’t have anxieties, Sarah\r\nwho is an honor student, who is good at the theater, who is sort of an introvert and\r\nbut I wasn’t normal and that was the thing- I was concealing this very\r\na significant part of myself but when I was 18 I was so utterly exhausted from\r\ndealing with panic and depression that I made the choice to see a psychiatrist\r\nand get on medication.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI can vividly remember opening the Prozac that I was given, putting it in orange juice, taking half a dose to try to get on you know\r\nthe regimen, drinking that orange juice and then feeling like something was\r\nchanging. I could actually feel. I felt different. I remember the next day looking at the trees outside and it was\r\nSpringtime and realizing there was no more noise in my head and I felt like for the first time there was quiet and I could actually think and so I decided\r\nafter living with the shame of having anxiety I wanted to be open about this\r\nso I told my story in the most public way that I could and that was on\r\nthe Healthy Living section of HuffPost. I wanted to see if there was a centralized\r\nlocation for people to share their stories online and I searched the\r\ninternet and I couldn’t find one so I created one myself and that Stigma\r\nFighters.com last year we published an anthology of the personal essays from the site and it’s called the Stigma Fighters Anthology and that’s what Stigma Fighters is about so it’s about really being authentic to yourself and being\r\nable to speak your truth and have it out there for the public to read for public\r\nconsumption.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.pexels.com\/photos\/4219101\/pexels-photo-4219101.jpeg?auto=compress&amp;cs=tinysrgb&amp;h=650&amp;w=940\" \/>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIn order to live a fulfilling life, you need to be true to yourself. You will be able to achieve what you want and your goals in life if\r\nyou’re authentic to yourself and you give fewer fucks about what people think Be true to yourself. Go for what you want\r\nand only care about the people that are important to you and you are okay.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=a2uTdcLEvk0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">As found on YouTube<\/a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/pdctrk.com\/a\/750d771a\">Discover the First-To-Market Revolutionary SPR \u201cStatic\u201d Conversion Tech Which Dramatically Speeds Up &amp; Secures Existing WordPress Sites &amp; Cloud Affiliate Pages With Just A Few Clicks<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Sarah Fader I am the CEO and Founder of Stigma Fighters. Stigma Fighters is a non-profit organization dedicated to giving people with mental illness a voice and it began when I told my story about living with panic disorder on the Huffington Post so I had my first panic attack when I was 15 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/100098\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sarah Fader on Stigma Fighters, Panic Disorder, and Recovery<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":100096,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,409],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-causes-and-prevention","category-health"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/htmlIMG_5f3f36c1a212e.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100098"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100098"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134661,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100098\/revisions\/134661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}