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I realise now that I’d become so wrapped up in everything that had happened since that I’d forgotten the joy in all the negativity that followed. When we climb onto the bus, I vow to myself to keep striving for that feeling from now on and
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“Many people are afraid of the symptoms caused by overbreathing, believing that something dreadful is about to happen. These feelins are known as thoughts of 'impending doom'. Not surprisingly, when the brain believes that we are losing blood we are bound to interpret those symptoms catastrophically. Often people believe they are going to have a heart attack, or that they are going mad, or that something terrible is about to happen. In reality, all these symptoms (and the subsequent catastrophic interpretations) are simply cause by overbreathing and the ensuring acidity changes.”
― Don't Panic: you can overcome anxiety without drugs
― Don't Panic: you can overcome anxiety without drugs
“Australian shrimp barbecue, when the beers and the rums mix with the hard sun headaches and widespread Saturday night violence spreads across the country behind closed front doors. Truth is, Bich said, Australian childhoods are so idyllic and joyous, so filled with beach visits and backyard games of cricket, that Australian adulthoods can’t possibly meet our childhood expectations. Our perfect early lives in this vast island paradise doom us to melancholy because we know, in the hard honest bones beneath our dubious bronze skin, that we will never again be happier than we were once before. She said we live in the greatest country on earth but we’re actually all miserable deep down inside and the junk cures the misery and the junk industry will never die because Australian misery will never die.”
― Boy Swallows Universe
― Boy Swallows Universe
“Unfortunately, as we have seen, people who have had a negative childhood will be far more likely to experience overwhelming and life-threatening fear following a serious stressful life event, and so they are far more likely to use avoidance strategies for dealing with it.”
― Don't Panic: you can overcome anxiety without drugs
― Don't Panic: you can overcome anxiety without drugs
“Do your time before it does you.”
― Boy Swallows Universe
― Boy Swallows Universe
“You know, the one problem with building up unattainable fantasies in one’s head,” he said, staring intently at the television, “is that they grow so large they eventually burst, leaving nothing behind but disappointment.”
― The Silver Thread
― The Silver Thread
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