Solo EDC Experience (Breaking Away From Anxiety)
I went to my first EDC back in 2010 when I was just thirteen years old. I have always loved EDM and trance music as a very young kid. I am making this post because I want to share to you all that I suffer from Generalized Anxiety Disorder and OCD throughout my whole life existence. I genuinely did not believe I would be able to make it to EDC 2026 on my own. I do not have a large group of friends who are into this music therefore, I’ve been a hermit my whole life being so afraid of venturing out in the festival world. I worked for over a year with my therapist in making an “Anti Anxiety Bucket List”. On that bucket list, one of my goals was to go to EDC solo. I missed out on so many opportunities in my life because I waited for others to go with me. I told myself this year is time for me to break away from this negative self talk and mindset (I’m not getting any younger here). So I ended up going alone. People will ask, and yes, I am always sober. I just want to say, this experience of going to EDC solo genuinely changed my life perspective forever. Seeing all the beautiful people, along with the sights and interactions I had. It made me realize how beautiful life can be if you open yourself up to receiving love and positivity and how short life is when you don’t take the risk of seizing opportunities. I know people on other posts will complain about the shuttle times, the crowdedness and other miscellaneous things but that is also the fun of it. But I wanted to share this post to share with you guys that I genuinely had an amazing time. Feeling the crazy wind on Day 3 made me laugh non stop because of how crazy and adventurous I was feeling fighting against it. The shit show of the shuttle wait times pushed me out of my comfort zone to talk with new people. My old past self would have said “Hell no.”, I am learning how to say more “Hell Yes!” I am happy to announce that I no longer feel as anxious as I did before. Also, Quantum Valley was my favorite stage. See you dreamers at Dreamstate ❤️