So I found an article here that was decent… Many of the articles you see online are mostly click bait and rehashes of things we already know. I understand that’s cynical, but it is what it is. This article was a bit of click bait as well “3 best ways to manage anxiety”

Right like there are 3 magic steps we can take and that’s it, game over we win. Anxiety is like water, just when you think it has it contained it seeps in from another location. Its not always an overwhelming flood, sometimes it’s the slow trickle that inevitably wears you down.

That said the article had one pearl that I though was worth sharing. From the article: When you notice you’re worried about something bad happening today, think about how likely that outcome really is. Has it happened many times in the past? Is it the most likely outcome? Are there other things that could happen instead? Most of the time, the things we worry about never end up happening, so the anxiety we experience causes us unnecessary suffering. Redirect your energy instead toward the things around you that are in your control.

This is a great articulation of something I have been working on for literally years. I succumb to worry bordering on panic often (like many of us I am sure) but I work diligently to consider “is this really going to happen?”. So often it’s the case that nothing remotely as bad as I thought was going to happen does.

I think this is an extremely important concept to remember for those of us who suffer from anxiety, and this article does a good job of reinforcing it. The scenarios we create in our minds are often the worse case scenarios, as it would apply to us. As an example, I recently gave notice at my job, prior I had a whirlwind in my head of all sorts of scenarios that would play out from being sued to people begging me to stay.

It consumed me, and I was unable to sleep the night before and was riddled with anxiety. None of my mental forecasts came true. It was for all intent and purposes a standard run of the mill process with no surprises. For those of us with anxiety though, that’s daily life.

Like water, sometimes it’s a flood, sometimes it’s a small drip but either way you get wet, just to what degree? Now I’m waxing poetic and should probably stop, LOL.

You’re doing great, one day at a time.

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