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Connectedness with a spiritual community is a source of energy.
Striving not to get too "believe after me" here, but how you answer the "Why am I here?" question is crucial.
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Thank you for your concern. I am seeing a therapist. I don’t think I’m in any kind of crisis though.
Seeing a therapist is the first important step, congratulations! Please remember that it may take some time for you to find the answers out of your situation, including to grasp everything your therapist had explained. Please give yourself permission to let those discussion / feedback sink in, no need to rush. Trying to speed things up will only make it worse, as my experience during my post-grad time shows. Besides,…
That's a ton, so I wouldn't start with more than one, preferably the easiest, then increment. They support each otber because constant anxiety for me is just the symptom that everything is going to crap.
Meditation has the strongest reward, but also the highest cost. Psycheselic have the best cost/reward ratio but may hide other problems: once you feel great, you may stop working on it.
Food, friends and sleep are hard, because they affect your life so much and requires motivation.
Supplements require no motivation, little effort to take and have a huge impact... But require a lot of reading, trials and errors et money.
Neverthless, I wish I knew all that 15 years ago. It would have saved me so much trouble, and actually work on the root problem, as anxiety is just one of the many small tip of a huge and deep iceberg.
I've struggled with a similar situation - anxiety stemming from childhood trauma - for a long time. The things that help me the most are: 1. Basic self care: get enough sleep (~8 hours a night), eat plenty of healthy food and cut out as much junk food as possible, and make time for doing something you enjoy each day, even if it's only for 20-30 minutes. 2. Therapy: Either straightforward counseling or something more…
Some advice coming from someone who dealt – and is still often dealing – with anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem. The very first thing you have to understand is that your perception is biased by your mental issues, is your feeling of incompetence backed by any facts? Is your boss continually complaining about your performance? And even if your performances are as bad as you think they are, I wouldn't be surpris…
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You hate your job, but you feel forced to do it. And you've been like that for 13 years! Even slaves in the Bible were released after 7 years. No wonder you're miserable. No one can do something they hate for that long without having their soul crushed. Sorry to the people here, but I don't think meditation/diet/exercise will fix this problem.
I don’t know what to say. You are absolutely right. What makes me even more anxious is the life my kids are going to have. How do I teach them to avoid the slavery when even I’m not able to break free.
Most of us have anxiety and/or depressed mood nowadays. Have you read Capitalist Realism? It provides a coherent explanation of what is going on. There are no good recipes for getting out of this state of mind (because you can't escape from reality). You may heal the symptoms by exercising, meditating and taking medications. To cure the cause though would require significantly changing your attitude and reconciling y…
That’s why becoming political or engaged in the community is difficult but I like the idea and will try to find some way.
You should abstract yourself from the environment. Somehow force yourself to don't give a fuck because it's not your choice everything is shit. And let it go to ashes.