Heroine with mental disorder

Hey, I'm sorry for the really late reply, just saw this!

It's traditional clothing for women from Bali, Indonesia. She does not necessarily have to be a queen to be able to wear this, but she sure looks so regal here, doesn't she?

Just read Ruby Dixon's Barbarian's Beloved and the heroine suffers from crippling anxiety in a place where she has no medicine (this is an alien romance on a primitive planet). As someone who suffers from anxiety attacks myself (though not nearly as often as the h) I found it rather uplifting to see a romance where the hero accepts the h like she is and there is no magic fix. The author has anxiety herself and treats the subject well in my opinion.

mlover - my current doctor checked for hyper-thyroid a couple of years ago and found no signs of it. But my anxiety seems to be purely stress-related. The attacks started just before I had a "burnout". I loved my demanding IT job and didn't even realise that I had been constantly stressed for years until my body and mind just... crashed. The first time I had an anxiety attack I thought I was having a heart attack - I had no idea anxiety could manifest like that (and I didn't consider myself anxious at all!). Since I am a stubborn control freak, being unable to just will myself to stop being stressed/anxious is really hard to swallow - and I still can't quite accept that I am now this "fragile" creature who doesn't handle pressure or changes to my rutine well.  And if I start to get stressed, the anxiety attacks are sure to follow.