Lo peor de la ansiedad es sentirse una carga
Tener ansiedad es como tener constantemente a alguien susurrándote pensamientos al oído. Pensamientos intrusivos.
Surgen de la nada y se repiten una y otra vez.
You can’t do it. That’s too hard for you. Stop, you’ll just complicate things. They’re looking at you. Maybe you shouldn’t have done that. Why didn’t you do it?
Y sigue y sigue. Con la ansiedad, cada aspecto de tu vida se convierte en una lucha. Todo es un desencadenante potencial.
Talking to cashiers, answering the phone, ordering food, paying the bills, small talk, going to work, bumping into people from your past and don’t let me even start on crippling 3 AM thoughts about that one time when you embarrassed yourself in fifth grade.
Every single thing takes so much time to do because you need to rewind and fast forward all of the possible scenarios in your head before you do anything… and then you worry about wasting your time.
It’s simply exhausting. It never stops. You feel like an outdated, overworked engine; using energy but for what?
At the end of the day, you’re exhausted by seemingly doing nothing. That’s where the guilt kicks in.
Anxiety makes you feel abnormal. Living with anxiety is like going through life doing everything everyone else does but for you, it’s ten times harder and you don’t know why.
¿Por qué parece tan fácil para los demás? Debe haber algo mal contigo. You’re such a difficult person.
Maybe you should go and talk to someone about it? Or rather not, as they’ll think you’re just making a scene over nothing. ¿Le suena familiar esta línea de pensamiento?
Poco a poco, te distancias, empiezas a cancelar eventos y a poner excusas y acabas solo en la pequeña burbuja que tu ansiedad ha creado para ti.
La incomprensión, la soledad, la repentina sensación de no ser querido y de estar roto para siempre empiezan a abrumarte.
You feel like a burden to everyone around you… and you barely talk to them about your problems. This is where the self-hate kicks in.
For that reason, I’m writing this to tell you: Your mind is blatantly lying to you.
No eres una persona antipática; de hecho, debajo de tu forma de pensar antes de hablar, de postergar las cosas por miedo, de dejar que los demás terminen sus frases y de no decir nunca la tuya, hay una persona extremadamente adorable y muy observadora.
A person who feels and notices everything; someone who is sensitive and attentive to other people’s states of mind and feelings.
Besides that, you’re very aware of yourself, introspective and living in an environment that makes you (and most other people) overstimulated.
Your mind is under pressure almost all the time and since it’s not an on/off thing, you can’t just stop feeling altogether.
Lo que puedes hacer es empezar a esforzarte por elegir qué cosas merecen tu atención y tu energía. Empieza a ser más selectivo.
Permítase ir más despacio, relajarse y tomarse las cosas con más calma.
It’s easy to forget that life shouldn’t be so serious all the time. Try exploring your priorities and making some sort of list that’s going to remind you to be more mindful of the energy you spend on certain things or people.
Having anxiety isn’t something you’re sentenced to. You can prevent it from taking over you and for that, you need will, effort and trust in yourself—all things available.
It’s not going to be easy but it is one hundred percent possible. Awaken your fighter spirit and fight your lying mind.
En lugar de controlar tus pensamientos, evita que ellos te controlen a ti. Déjalos ir. Déjalos ir y continúa tu camino.
Thoughts are temporary and they don’t make you. You make you.
Be gentle with yourself and thank yourself for being strong. Look at yourself in the mirror every day and say: You’re enough.
Don’t let irrational fears kill the beautiful in you because the beauty in you is what makes the real you.
