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go about your life as normally as possible and you do what you need to do to stay strong, mentally. There’s a lot we don’t understand about the mind-body connection, but I’ve seen enough to believe in the healing power of a positive
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“The more anxious we are, the more high-functioning we will make ourselves appear, which just encourages the world to lean on us more.”
― First, We Make the Beast Beautiful: A New Story About Anxiety
― First, We Make the Beast Beautiful: A New Story About Anxiety
“The world exists in you. Your experience of the world isn’t this objective unchangeable thing called ‘The World’. No. Your experience of the world is your interaction with it, your interpretation of it. To a certain degree we all make our own worlds. We read it in our own way. But also: we can, to a degree, choose what to read. We have to work out what about the world makes us feel sad or scared or confused or ill or calm or happy.”
― Notes on a Nervous Planet
― Notes on a Nervous Planet
“Living with anxiety, turning up, and doing stuff with anxiety takes a strength most people will never know.”
― Notes on a Nervous Planet
― Notes on a Nervous Planet
“You want to find something, but you don’t know what to search for. In everyone there’s a continuous desire and expectation; deep inside, you still expect something better to happen. That is why you check your email many times a day.”
― First, We Make the Beast Beautiful: A New Journey Through Anxiety—A Personal Journey Through Anxiety and Self-Discovery
― First, We Make the Beast Beautiful: A New Journey Through Anxiety—A Personal Journey Through Anxiety and Self-Discovery
“I sometimes feel like my head is a computer with too many windows open. Too much clutter on the desktop. There is a metaphorical spinning rainbow wheel inside me. Disabling me. And if only I could find a way to switch off some of the frames, if only I could drag some of the clutter into the trash, then I would be fine. But which frame would I choose, when they all seem so essential? How can I stop my mind being overloaded when the world is overloaded? We can think about anything. And so it makes sense that we end up thinking about everything. We might have to, sometimes, be brave enough to switch the screens off in order to switch ourselves back on. To disconnect in order to reconnect.”
― Notes on a Nervous Planet
― Notes on a Nervous Planet
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