I have gained nothing but concentration and focus a little bit. I lost anger from practicing meditation. Meditation is great for your mental health! Pamela Ann Wyatt I still have anxiety, because after all Selective Mutism is an anxiety disorder! I still have depression and insecurity and fear of old age and death. Like · Reply · 1m Active Pamela Ann Wyatt Every now and then, like last night I started thinking about death and old age and that I only get one chance to make life great and I blew it all up into pieces with getting the Selective Mutism bug. That fear of death and old age at age 3 was the worst of it. I don't know who told me or maybe I over heard it. (shut up jason, you were not there and don't tell me what I was feeling and how selective mutism is) Just shut up Jason ! That was how I was feeling at the age of three and even now I guess. Probably how I developed Selective Mutism in the first place wa...