All I Hear Around Here is an Echo

Last night I couldn't go to sleep until I wrote an article that I had in mind. It was about social anxiety and I wrote it for our school newspaper, The Echo. It's about 600 words in length and focuses on my experiences with anxiety, my struggles in school, and the eventual help I received in counseling. My aim is to educate other students who have social anxiety and don't know what it is or what to do, and to show that it's possible to overcome it.

It felt so good to have it written. I love getting something completed, and this is the first writing assignment I've ever given myself that I've finished. Now I'm nervous. I know an editor at The Echo and I could talk to her about whether or not they'd be interested in running it, but I'm starting to succumb to the self-doubt. Negative thoughts are getting to me. I need some confidence. It's times like these I wish someone was reading this thing. . .