I have anxiety. I do my best with therapy, meditation, medication. I've had it for years. My husband has been married to me for 5 years, with me for 7, and friends with me for 16. I've had anxiety the whole time, and I would argue that it has gotten a LOT better over the years. I have gotten a lot better at managing it.

My husband is not supportive at all. I'm not saying he needs to go out of his way to accommodate me, but he's my partner. I feel like he should try to help a little. When I'm anxious about something, he gets really mad at me and yells at me. He hasn't always been like this, it's gotten worse lately so I'm not sure if he's just getting sick of me. His work holiday party is tomorrow and I'm very anxious about going and meeting his coworkers for the first time, but I'm going to support him. He only just told me tonight that it's 5 hours earlier than we had been planning for and we have to bring a gift. One of the ways I deal with my anxiety is to be prepared ahead of time. I know you can't help last minute changes sometimes (it wasn't a change, he just gave me the wrong information and forgot about the gift), but if I have any reaction whatsoever other than totally cool, he gets mad. Inside I was freaking out (anxiety is awesome...) but on the outside I just said "oh, okay." I can't even be myself because he gets mad. He's known me for 16 years and asked me to marry him and yet gets angry at me for being exactly who I have always been. (Honestly, better. I am doing so much better and I'm so proud of myself).

Is it normal for other people in your life to get upset by your anxiety? No one else in my life gets angry about it but no one is as affected by it as him. I'm not sure if he's just really unsupportive or if it's hard to be with someone who has anxiety and I should try to keep it more to myself. Either way, I feel very lonely.