In this episode of Girls With Opinions, we’re diving into something that feels very real right now: anxiety culture.

Because let’s be honest… no shit everyone’s anxious. Look at the world we’re living in. Of course people are overwhelmed, overstimulated, and trying to keep up with everything around them. Anxiety makes sense.

But we also get into the other side of it — how the way we talk about anxiety online can sometimes do more harm than good. From TikTok advice to self-diagnosing to over-identifying with labels, we unpack how quickly anxiety can shift from something we experience to something we start to define ourselves by.

This conversation is about finding the balance between validating what you feel and not getting stuck in it. Because while anxiety is real and deserves to be tak ...