Naomi confesses her exhausting internal battle with anxiety and the 'circle of confusion' that leads her to constantly second-guess her life choices. She expresses a deep-seated fear of reaching old age with regrets and tentatively considers seeking professional help to break her cycle of depression.
NAOMI: I torture myself and I don’t know how to stop it...I try so hard to think positive and for the most part I do, I am; but, keeping myself that way is the hardest thing in the world. It creeps up on me out from the shadows of my mind. I hate to sound like some cheesy novel but it’s true. Whatever I have going on deep inside myself, I do my best to ignore and most days, everything is good but when it hits, when this sudden rush of negative energy comes by, it’s like a wave of depression. I get so down about the direction of my life. Am I making the right decisions? Am I being who I am meant to be?
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