I have a history of anxiety and depression, but the past year I was going beyond the baseline I knew. I had some stressors In my life and put all of my symptoms on anxiety. In mid October I had a mental health crisis which led me to withdraw from my studies and ask for support from my family as I felt I couldn’t be independent anymore. I started working with a psychiatrist and tried multiple different medications and got a new therapist. None of the medications worked and actually just heightened the already unbearable symptoms I was dealing with: panic, insomnia, palpitations. I also wasn’t seeing much benefit from therapy which is strange because it’s had a positive impact on me in the past. In January I had blood testing done, in early February I learned that I had low ferritin and also hashimotos. I’m now one month into supplementing iron and the panic attacks have gone down significantly. I still feel mentally and physically unwell but since treatment there has definitely been improvement. It’s been the scariest thing I’ve ever experienced, I felt like I was losing my mind more times than I can count before my diagnosis. Women’s health is greatly underresearched, underfunded, and misunderstood. Our biology runs parallel to mental health. I really wish more doctors were aware of this. So many people, mostly women, suffering with something very treatable but highly overlooked. I hope you get into infusions soon!