Month: April 2022

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“Hi, Stupid…”

Stupid Anxiety needed it’s own identity. It’s own email address. I googled instructions on how to create a new Gmail address, because yes, I didn’t even know how to do that. I just one day announced, “I AM GOING TO START MY BLOG” completely clueless about how to do anything.

To create a new profile, it asked for a first and last name. Well, what would that be, I thought. I don’t want to use my own name. So I put “Stupid” for the first name, and “Anxiety” for the last name. It seemed logical, right?

This is how Google addresses me at Stupid Anxiety’s new Gmail account.

Hi Stupid, Welcome to Google.

I LOVE IT!

Hi Google, this is Stupid. Thank you, I’m happy to be here.

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The anxiety of creating Stupid Anxiety

I have to admit it. I have no idea what I’m doing. I was so excited about starting this blog, but right now, I’m ready to throw my tablet out the window. This, my friends, is just a taste of how frustrating it is to dare to try new things as a person with Generalized Anxiety Disorder, the fancy name they have given to overly anxious people like me, because “nervous Nellie” doesn’t quite cut it.

So here I am, trying to patiently follow instructions of a website I found when I googled, “how to start a blog.” I went through the steps, yet what I see on my screen does not match the screenshots on the website. I don’t know why this is so difficult. “I had my blog set up in 45 minutes!!” said the testimonials. But here I am, a week later, still trying to figure this out.

But stick with me, folks. I will get through this. Anxiety, you will not win this time! As God as my witness, I will have a blog! And it will be good!