No, said Aziraphale, it's ineffable.

things that have improved things for me recently:

Immediately deleting the crime emails we get at work
Unfollowing people I felt obligated to follow who were just endlessly critical and never seemed to enjoy anything
Not blindly reading every post on Tumblr dashboard - save time, just fucking skip it if it isn’t immediately relevant, you don’t need to read about people bitching about fandom details you don’t even care about the basics of
Cutting down significantly on miserable social justice news and just blocking some associated tags - i have a constant stream of horror in my own head, i can’t healthily afford to have every world horror beamed in too
~therapist~
Sugar reduction
Chest binders, even though I still feel like I have more chest than will ever be contained and it is difficult to find the ‘right’ configuring of tissue that strikes balance of looking decent, not triggering body panic, and staying put.
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“The Introvert Advantage” audiobook - listen, this book reads like someone followed me for 30 years and then reported on my behavior. Every breath I’ve ever taken seems documented here, I’m Astonished??
“The Life Changing Magic Of Not Giving A Fuck” audiobook - this and the above are like My New Bedrock. If you do not have audible and would like to be sent either of these as a free book, let me the fuck know, I will share!
Audiobooks in general. Keep me from marinating in The Bad Thoughts at night, drown out coworkers during the day, teach me about plagues and ancient religion.
Evaluating what and how I’d actually like to be celebrating, versus what I’m forced to
Noticing that while I have shows that I do enjoy, some of them are having a negative effect on my brain meat. Keeping my distance from crime shows and documentaries almost all of the time, no matter how much I enjoy Olivia Benson or Spencer Reed.
On the other hand, identifying media that makes me really happy and just Enjoying it without allowing The Discourse in to ruin something that brings me joy without harm. This mostly means I can’t follow their tags on Tumblr, but it’s okay if it preserves a joy for me.

First let’s define the term anxiety: Anxiety is a feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease, typically about an imminent event or something with an uncertain outcome. However there are many different anxiety disorders and I have videos about most of them, so you can click through the playlist in the description for more info about specific ones like generalized anxiety disorder or panic disorder. Because anxiety can cause us to avoid certain situations that could make our anxiety worse or trigger a panic attack, we can avoid a lot of social situations or not engage in what could be considered normal activities (like not joining choir or an art group or playing sports, or even going to happy hour after work with our colleagues). It is my belief that because we can feel too scared to participate fully in our life we can in turn struggle to “grow up.” When we don’t grow up at the ages most people do we call that being developmentally arrested. There is much research supporting that BPD can lead to arrested development, as well as any sort of childhood trauma & intense substance abuse. When it comes to trauma I believe we can’t move on past that time until we process it through. So most often my patients will feel stuck or arrested at the age their abuse began. Also, I don’t want anyone to think that we have to grow up completely and lose our sense of childlike wonder or excitement. That’s not what I mean.. What I mean is that we emotionally and psychologically feel like we are growing up. Able to hold onto parts of our childhood that help or serve us and let go of those things that don’t.
In that same way, if life in many ways just feels like too much to us and we would prefer to not engage, we can get stuck and not “grow up” as quickly as those around us. Does that make sense? If you disagree I would love to hear your thoughts and why you think it’s happens in the comments below. But now let’s move onto how we can overcome it: 1. Resourcing 2. Building on healthy relationships (specifically with siblings to do fact checking) 3. CBT - using the downward arrow technique 4. Medication can help with anxious feelings if you are drowning in the symptoms 5. Processing through trauma (EMDR, talk therapy, trauma focused CBT, etc).

Anxiety playlist:https://youtu.be/W9r5TmwTM_A?list=PL_…
Repressed Memory Video: https://youtu.be/l72Q3xrFYh0
CBT therapy: https://youtu.be/g7B3n9jobus

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