There was another epidemic that was not talked about much, a silent scourge—the explosion of mental illness: major depression, psychosis, schizophrenia, manic-depression, personality disorders, grief response, post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety disorders, etc.—on a scale none of us had ever wit…
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Did you know that as humans, we are wired to focus on the negative? Our brains are naturally drawn to see the bad.
We should learn to laugh about our anxieties, laugh to be the exuberant expression of relief when a hither to private agony, is given a well-crafted social formulation in a joke.
Though we may focus day-to-day on this or that particular worry creating static in our minds, what we're really up against is anxiety as a permanent feature of life: something irrevocable, existential, dogged and responsible for ruining a dominant share for our brief time on earth.
Anxiety can hit at any time. You feel like you're in an open field, and there's a tornado coming at you. And you're just consumed by it."
High functioning anxiety can truly make us into our own worst enemies.
We are incredibly mean to ourselves when we make mistakes, no matter how easy it was for us to make it. We beat ourselves up in our heads day in and day out. We don’t know how to tell ourselves that it is ok.
You do everything in your power to make it stop, but you can’t help but feel the aches in your shoulders, and feel your heart beat speed up like a wildfire. You look put together. You look like you have your life together. But inside? You feel like you are dying.
You obsess over everything in your head. Most likely, the things you obsess about would never cross someone’s mind who doesn’t have anxiety.
Anxiety is procrastination because you’re paralyzed with fear of failing so you hold it off.
Anxiety is wanting to fix something that isn’t even a problem.
It’s thinking too much, it’s caring too much. Because the root of people with anxiety is caring.
Anxiety is the time you spend waiting for an answer as a scenario plays out in your mind of what they could be thinking or are they mad? Anxiety is an unanswered text that kills you inside
The scientists found that those with anxiety experienced lasting plasticity long after an emotional experience (aka a ‘stimulus’) ended. This means the brain was unable to distinguish new, irrelevant situations from something that’s familiar or non-threatening, resulting in anxiety. In other words,…
Just because someone lives with anxiety, it doesn’t mean that their anxiety defines them.
Anxiety is not something that can be cured with a simple ‘everything will be alright. there’s nothing to worry about.’ The thing about anxiety is that nobody’s entirely sure where it comes from or what causes it.
We can't choose how things affect us and we can't choose the cards we are dealt in life, but we can accept them and play the best game possible. The only setbacks we have in life are the things we allow to be defined as setbacks. If you accept everything about who you are and learn to embrace it, yo…
Anxiety disorder is far more extensive than an ailment of someone who just worries too much. It is reflective of complete panic and it affects every aspect of life for those who suffer from it.
It’s a toxic cycle: Your thoughts become your worries and your worries become your thoughts.
An anxiety disorder is when those run-of-the-mill butterflies become a chronic daily experience.