[ SECRET POST #3196 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3196 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Hannibal]


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03. [repeat, Black Mirror]


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[World of Warcraft, Mists of Pandaria]


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[Sailor Moon]


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[Silicon Valley]


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[Time Masters: Vanishing Point and Aladdin]


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[Floraverse]


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[HTGAWM]













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Comments

Re: Mental tricks for dealing with anxiety

[dreemyweird]

Ok so. Reasoning with yourself logically does not help - this is one thing I've discovered during my experience with anxiety (not clinical, but still pretty bad). Pure logic can take you the wildest places. Instead, what you need is common sense. "Is this catastrophic outcome logically possible? Yeah, sure. But it's not going to happen within the next few moments, and thinking about it is damaging for me, so I'm just going to accept that it's a logical possibility but not deal with it emotionally or think about it."

Learn to shelve your Damocles' swords. You can always hang them back over yourself when necessary.

Also, I used to do quasi-meditations where I'd just sit quietly and explore my imaginary worlds. Nothing much happened there - I would just see a lot of magical creatures and maybe hang out with my friends when I felt like it and eat lots of nice food.

I hope someone out there finds this helpful. Anxiety sucks balls, and I'm so very sorry if you have to go through it.

Re: Mental tricks for dealing with anxiety

[(Anonymous)]

The thing is - for me specifically - I don't feel like anxiety exists solely at the level of conscious thought. It certainly manifests itself in conscious thought, but I'm also totally capable of having a just general background level of anxiety that is still very much real. & that's something that common sense can't drive away because it's not fundamentally driven by its sense or lack thereof. A lot of the times, in my personal experience with anxiety, it's not a question of the actual content or of a specific worry - it's this background hum of WORRY WORRY WORRY DANGER DANGER DANGER. And the specific worries are just where the rational mind goes to justify that existing feeling.

I do agree that distracting oneself with that kind of imaginative mental play - quasi-meditation as you call it - can be a good way of removing your mind from the situation. But I also feel weirdly bad about that - it just feels evasive.

But also thank you for the thoughtful post.

Re: Mental tricks for dealing with anxiety

[dreemyweird]

Yeah, that's true. When I started having anxiety issues, I went into therapy and after a while, I basically ended up in a mental place where I had no "conscious" anxiety, but I would wake up every morning in cold sweat and physically shaking. Then I went on meds, and now I'm okay in this regard. (well, I'm actually starting to come off the said meds in a few days, so we'll see how I'll do without them).

I never found anything apart from meds, physical exertion&quasi-meditation stuff that actually alleviated that feeling - I mean, I think it was just something more or less biochemical; it didn't come straight from my psychological issues (childhood trauma).

I don't think you should feel bad about "evading" your anxiety?? What exactly is the alternative? Toughing up and combating it with the sheer strength of will? I'd been trying this route for six years, from 12 to 18, and it only fucked me up worse. It's not "evading", it's soothing and eliminating it as best as you can.

You're welcome <3