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Photo: RapidEye/Getty Images/iStockphoto If you’re here, you’re probably prone to anxiety, and hunting online for people who’ve lived through experiences like yours. Those with generalized anxiety disorder know how exhausting it can be, and even physically painful. Anxiety can also cloud your judgment, making it hard to trust people close to you — even yourself. And for the people close to you who don’t have anxiety, understanding those anxious feelings and reactions can be frustrating.
Sample lines: “There’s no self to hate. It’s like, when I look into myself, there’s no actual me—just a bunch of thoughts and behaviors and circumstances. And a lot of them just don’t feel like they’re mine. They’re not things I want to think or do or whatever. And when I do look for the, like, Real Me, I never find it.
Sample lines: “I’d say anxiety creates resilience to thrive in this life. Anxiety is a beautiful thing.”This one goes out to the anxious kid who loved spelling bees and worksheets who grew up into an anxious adult who loves order. My mom gave me a copy of an earlier edition of this workbook some 15 years ago, and I pulled it off my shelf whenever I was feeling helpless about my anxiety.
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