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Ask HN: How can I stop worrying and start living?

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Re: Ask HN: How can I stop worrying and start living?

#21

This is a silly little mindgame but it really does help with worry and stress. You basically flip all worst-case scenarios on their head to see the advantages of whatever situation you're in. Good Game: Good! Now I can .... Eg. My husband is divorcing me. Good! Now I can find someone who loves me deeply and doesn't leave ice cream containers composting on his desk. My upstairs neighbors are hella loud and annoying. G…

Can't reach the grapes? Good! They were sour.

Re: Ask HN: How can I stop worrying and start living?

#23
post #4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEIqVq7EZqE

My depression is cured

It seems from the comments on the video that your joke has actually been the case for a few people. Sometimes what's needed is a new perspective and a "worthless platitude".

Re: Ask HN: How can I stop worrying and start living?

#24
Drink more. Or whatever intoxicant works best to make you give less fucks and is least likely to drag you into a downward spiral of addiction.

This constant worry may also be a symptom of some kind of anxiety disorder, which has its own calvacade of legal psychoactive chemicals with their own sets of side effects and problems you could look into getting someone to prescribe to you.

Re: Ask HN: How can I stop worrying and start living?

#25

This is a silly little mindgame but it really does help with worry and stress. You basically flip all worst-case scenarios on their head to see the advantages of whatever situation you're in. Good Game: Good! Now I can .... Eg. My husband is divorcing me. Good! Now I can find someone who loves me deeply and doesn't leave ice cream containers composting on his desk. My upstairs neighbors are hella loud and annoying. G…

5'10 balding male with a micropenis. Good!

Re: Ask HN: How can I stop worrying and start living?

#26
I think some of the advice here is quite good, but especially given the title of your question, someone has to point out that there's literally a book on the subject called "How to Stop Worrying and Start Living," by Dale Carnegie.

It's a good book. It probably won't solve all your problems without you needing to do some inner work, and I generally recommend meditation as a way to find peace, but also you should read the book since it directly answers your question :)

Re: Ask HN: How can I stop worrying and start living?

#27
You sound like you have General Anxiety Disorder, something that many people have. You should talk to a therapist that specializes in anxiety, and she can guide you in ways to figure out why you are feeling this way and coping mechanisms to help you get past it. And if need be, anti-anxiety medication could be prescribed by a doctor.

Re: Ask HN: How can I stop worrying and start living?

#28

Exercise. You are missing out on things, bad things will happen, and one day it will all come to an end. Now that we got that out of the way, recognize your body is a machine and you have at least some control over it. Get some exercise, change your location, give some attention to what you eat, connect with some people live. Make your body do something other than what it is doing.

> exercise

The exercise answer is really tiring. It became a universal remedy

If we analyze what OP is saying we can rapidly see what he wants.

Essentially he wants a long life where he gets to delay death as much as possible, live to 100 as a very rich person so he'd avoid missing out on things , stress free, and with the minimum amount of personal tragedies.

All the amount of exercise in the world won't magically summon all the luck that it's necessary to be in the 0.000000001% who can claim to be fortunate enough to satisfy all the requirements set by OP.

When the brain wants all the above and you throw at it a 20mi run...well let's say that if the brain was a person it'd look back at you and say something like :

"Do I look like an idiot? Give me what I want , not this BS run or else I'm gonna make you miserable and no amount of running will change that"

Re: Ask HN: How can I stop worrying and start living?

#29

This is a silly little mindgame but it really does help with worry and stress. You basically flip all worst-case scenarios on their head to see the advantages of whatever situation you're in. Good Game: Good! Now I can .... Eg. My husband is divorcing me. Good! Now I can find someone who loves me deeply and doesn't leave ice cream containers composting on his desk. My upstairs neighbors are hella loud and annoying. G…

5'10 balding male with a micropenis. Good!

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