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Is there an off switch on this brain?
You literally never feel completely calm.
Anxiety may be in your head, but it affects your body in so many ways. The tightness in your chest, the tenseness in your shoulders, the sick feeling in your stomach, the sensation of being uncomfortable in your own skin...
You’re just minding your own business, getting on with your day, and BAM your anxiety is all, "Remember me?! MWAHAHAHA!" Coz it's a bastard.
If your brain were a horse it would win EVERY damn race; it never slows down.
Should I have said that? Done that? THOUGHT that?!
Literally every person, passion, interest, hate, love, animal, object, activity… if it exists, you worry about it and what it all MEANS.
Your brain is always going, overanalyzing and overthinking everything.
Sorry your brain wants you to worry about whether you’re destined to be forever alone.
HAHA what are you thinking, this is your brain’s prime time to annoy you.
Oops your brain would rather show you something embarrassing you did 10 years ago, suspending your ability to form a coherent sentence.
Anything could be a potential trigger, so you spend your whole life on high alert guarding against anxiety spikes. Unfortunately, this means you spend a lot of time being anxious about being anxious.
It’s hard to appreciate life right now when you’re always stressing about things that have happened in the past or that might happen in the future.
WHAT IF YOU MAKE THE WRONG ONE?!?!?
I just don’t even know any more.
Also you have to triple-check that the door is locked/the iron is off/the dog has been fed.
Physically, mentally, emotionally. Anxiety is tiring yo.
Is that a true thought, or just the anxiety talking? BRAIN STOP TRYING TO TRICK ME.
Oh hello BRAIN we meet again.
Yeah I know that thing I'm worrying about is not worth worrying about but knowing that does not stop my brain from worrying about it.
No, I’m not self-centred or lazy, thanks, I actually just have crippling anxiety.
You can barely stand yourself sometimes, so how can they put up with you?!
(That's your brain lying to you again.)
Is there an off switch on this thing?
Meditation? My brain will be too loud and I won’t have anything to distract from the noise! Exercise? Everyone will be looking at me and judging me! Arrrrgghhhaahgahahgah…
And you're not alone.
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