Personal Narrative: The Sport Of Cheerleading

Cheerleading was a fun sport to do but you have to be able to get in front of crowds of people, and I was not able to do that. I had joined to try and get rid of my anxiety attacks they had gotten so bad and I didn’t what to do. Anxiety is different for everyone so not all the other cheerleaders knew how to help me when i was having an anxiety attack. Some of the other cheerleader and also coach Paad had or has anxiety. So they all tried their best with me.
All the cheerleaders and coaches were very helpful and patient with me. They knew it was going to be hard and they were with me through my attacks and the good times. They never gave up on me because they wanted to to get over my anxiety. I’m thankful for them, they have helped me. A lot

of other people that are not in cheer have anxiety and they have their ways to get over it or at least help it. Most are on medication for it as am I.
The fact that my anxiety was getting so bad i couldn’t even go to the first couple practices without having an attack.

I wanted it to help me so I did it no matter how many I have, I wanted to feel better and not worry about everything. I wanted to be able to talk in front of people and not be scared. So I joined in hopes to get better, but that isn’t always the case.
I went to all of the practices and i struggled so much with learning new cheers even if they were “easy” to some of the other girls. In my mind i thought to myself if i can’t learn this as soon as we do it the first time I would get nervous and scared. I had gotten to scared to mess up the cheers or jumps even if they said it was okay to mess up. It wasn’t easy at all but they helped me and took the time to help me learn them and not be as scared when I would go to a practice.
Having anxiety is different for everyone so we all experience it differently, it will not be the same from one person to the next. We all have our ways of dealing with an attack. Some might even be on medication for it. There are some people that do not have it and it’s great except when someone that does tries to talk to them and they don’t know how to respond. A lot of teens have anxiety when they are in school and it makes it hard to do the things that they need to do to pass a

class.
In a result for having severe panic and anxiety I ended up quitting cheerleading because I did not like feeling scared all the time. I’m sure there will be a day when I get over it but it wasn’t that day. It will not be easy neither was the choice of joining cheerleading but I did and I was proud of myself and so was my family, they all know how bad it was so they were also surprised when I told them. Right now I will continue to live with it like many others in the world do.