Anxiety is a funny thing.
One day you’re full of joy and energy, and suddenly something is said to you in a way that you perceive it as negative. It doesn’t need to be negative, hell, it doesn’t even need to be said. You simply just feel negativity that you’ve decided exists and within moments you are struggling to maintain the perception of being the good-hearted and strong individual that you so badly want to be seen as.
Within moments your biggest fears become your current hour, no matter how many people tell you otherwise.
It doesn’t matter if you know better. It doesn’t mean a thing if you think you did okay. What matters to anxiety is that you may not have done your best, even when you did. And for some reason that is not okay.You find yourself shame-spiraling as if you’d drank for days and days on end into the depth of hell waiting for satan himself to pull you out of your misery and say that he’s had enough of your BS. You find yourself ashamed and embarrassed so much so that you want to crawl into bed and hide your fucking soul because it’s too disgusting for any decent human being to see in the light of this day.
What a fucking miserable joke, isn’t it? Yet here we are treating it like it’s some unspeakable disease that no-one knows how to deal with.
Which is kind of what makes it such a joke in this world. Because if we could simply address these conflicts without the fear of breaking that thin shell of an egg of fear and emotion without worry and with full understanding that the egg is bound to crack and break it’s neck, then maybe we would all be able to coincide without such a traumatic ending. But nobody want’s to deal with that, now do they?
The greatest part about this entire thing is that anxiety is unavoidable. But what the average person can do to alleviate both sides of worry and fear is simple;Praise. Praise. Praise. Ill say it again, PRAISE. Anxiety’s biggest fear is failing, is not being good enough or up to par. If you simply thank a person ridden with anxiety for a simple task or act, you would be amazed at the change that you see. If you just communicate with this person. JUST TALK TO THEM.
Now I don’t want to this to be a rant on why or how society condemns the perceived “weak” or lacks to appreciate the small things in life. However, to simply fucking put it; the world would be a marvellous place if we would simply rise up to the positive side of this earth and look for a place of gratitude within all of us.
Don’t think that I’m excusing the anxiety ridden humans on this planet of their own self-acceptance and growth. Every person is responsible for their own happiness. However, it would be one hell of a lot easier if everyone else would just do a tiny bit more to make it that much easier in an already difficult scenario.
Rant. Fucking. Over.
Neesh Media 