Since
this brief is about my own personal experience of the first year of
university, the thing that has stuck with me and something that I have
struggled with throughout is my anxiety. On the first few days of university, I
was fairly confident. I felt like I had to be since I was in a new city
and had no connections at all so I had
to force myself to make friends. As time went on, my anxiety started to get
really bad, I cried in front of people in crits, my head would uncontrollably shake and
I didn’t know that this would ever happened to me. This was the first time I’ve
ever experienced these symptoms from all the years I’ve had anxiety.
As
we progressed onto the course, I became increasingly more shy and even to this
day. I cannot make conversation with people I’m not fond with but I’m really
confident with people I’m close with. Whenever I’ve been put in a situation
where I have to be with someone that I don’t really know that well, I feel
extremely vulnerable and my anxiety starts to kick in. When this happens, my
voice begins to shake, I begin to shake, my heart starts to race, my mind goes
blank and it’s a really difficult situation to be in because you don’t want the
other person to see what you’re going through so you’ve got to act normal. I
still get anxiety attacks now but I have found some ways that have worked for
me; I don’t ever want anyone to feel like I did so I wanted to create a help
book on how to deal with situations when anxiety hits.
I
want it to be simple so I will create10 different designs of ways to cope with anxiety. I will create obvious designs as I want the user to automatically recognise what
it stands for as having an anxiety attack is a stressful situation in itself.
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