• FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I do miss the version of me that didn’t have a constant undercurrent of dread reverberating throughout the day. Every day.

    • CentipedeFarrier@piefed.social
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      2 months ago

      Fortunately for me, that feeling is exactly the same as chronic anxiety, which feels basically the same as being over-caffeinated. So as long as I drink a bunch of coffee every day and don’t think about it too much, I can convince myself I just had too much coffee and it’s not just that I’m dying on the inside!

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      2 months ago

      Intermittent anxiety is so much worse than chronic anxiety.

      Chronic anxiety: I guess this is how I live now.

      Intermittent anxiety: fuck what was that?! Nah I’m ok… FUCK!

      …but like all in your head

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        2 months ago

        I have no doubt of that.

        My anxiety is a bitch but I have good coping strategies and am mostly able to live with it.

    • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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      2 months ago

      This

      So much this. I never had this in my life. Sometimes, you know, you have a bad day and at night you have a bit of this dready feeling but it’s fine.

      Then came trump, the world went immediately towards WWIII and I’ve been having a knot in my stomach for a year straight now.

      We have a dozen problems out there that can/will kill humanity within a hundred years and in came a retard who said it was all nonsense, and hey, here you have a thirteenth way that humanity will make itself extinct!

      I miss those days were the worst I had to think about was finding a job.