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20 Things Your Friends With Anxiety Wish You Knew

 

3. We are not pessimists!

We are all too aware that our worries border on irrational. This does nothing to quell those worries and neither does try to label us; in fact, labels make it much worse.

 

4. Relationships, of any kind, are extremely difficult for us.

Rather, they are exhausting! Interacting with someone, especially someone we care about or whose opinion matters to us, is like navigating a minefield in heels; we are constantly trying to avoid emotional explosions while looking good (or at least normal) while doing it.

 

5. We are only truly at peace when we’re alone.

Or with that rarest of creatures, someone who “gets” us and truly loves us for who we are, Anxiety and all.

 

6. The phrase “calm down” makes us want to kill ourselves…and you!

If it were possible to simply “calm down” don’t you think we would?

 

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Mar-li Pitcher

Mar-li can't decide whether or not she's a native New Yorker; she was born in San Francisco and is very proud of that. She has also spent the last 10 years living there, however, she was raised right here in the Big Apple. When not trying to decide which coast to claim (or deny) Mar-li is usually writing; (short stories mostly) or or thinking about her cat (Frosty), or actively working on her plan to fix her life by age 40... Twitter handle: Facebook URL:

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