anxiety

I kept waiting for the part where I__ finally know who I was _ some flashing, neon moment of relief, but it never came.

The Fall will always be yours and mine_

He looked at me, that first day, like he had just found something he__ lost a thousand years ago.

I write letters to you that you__l never see.

Time' is the most threatening four letter word.

Well, this has been some shit.

Learning to sit with ambiguity can be a very important start at a life liberated from anxiety__nd the way to do it is to resist the urge to chase answers to questions that may actually be unanswerable.

The truth is scary. We all think we want it, but once it__ given, it__ harder to swallow than we originally thought. But sometimes, when the pain is too much, we have to be honest with ourselves. Why are we unhappy? Why are we scared? Is it internal, or external? Then when we find the answer, we need to accept it (see chapter 1), and make the necessary changes to fix it.

For people like us, looking towards the future can feel daunting. It can literally make us feel sick to the stomach and often induces panic attacks. Trust me, I__e been there; I get it. That__ why the far-future should never be at the top of our __o-plan_ list. It__ alright to have goals but to stress ourselves out with plans and options and worries of the future is a good way to drive us crazy. However, there is one time when I want you to consider the future. Always have something to look forward to.

The promise of hope provides more comfort than the limitations of doubt.

You embody the strength of 10,000 moons and your life will be a testament of it. Ase

The man of courage is not the man who did not face adversity. The man of courage is the man who faced adversity and spoke to it. The man of courage tells adversity, "You're trespassing and I give you no authority to steal my joy, my faith or my hope.

Chronic trauma (according to the meaning I propose) that occurs early in life has profound effects on personality development and can lead to the development of dissociative identity disorder (DID), other dissociative disorders, personality disorders, psychotic thinking, and a host of symptoms such as anxiety, depression, eating disorders, and substance abuse. In my view, DID is simply an extreme version of the dissociative structure of the psyche that characterizes us all.

Worrying is the most natural and spontaneous of all human functions. It is time to acknowledge this, perhaps even to learn to do it better.

How hard it is to now believe that these strong, merciless chains of fear and hopelessness, rendering the limbs of my mind motionless, were once innocuous mere threads._ -Mehul.M

We are all the product of our past and have to live with our memories and personality they cannot be erased.

...the higher the expectations about unselected alternatives, the lower the level of satisfaction with the chosen good.

Century after century, the belief that an individual__ physical health was independent of his or her emotional health has so dominated medical thought that there has even been open contempt for anyone who would dare to claim that a person__ physical well-being is the sum of its internal and external influences.