A pior parte da ansiedade é sentir-se como um fardo

Ter ansiedade é como ter constantemente alguém a sussurrar-nos pensamentos ao ouvido. Pensamentos intrusivos.

Surgem do nada e repetem-se uma e outra 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?

Não pára. Com a ansiedade, cada parte da sua vida torna-se uma luta. Tudo é um potencial fator de desencadeamento.

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 You feel like an outdated, overworked engine; using energy but for what?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.

Porque é que parece tão fácil para todos os outros? Deve haver algo de errado consigo.  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. Esta linha de pensamento parece-lhe familiar?

Pouco a pouco, distancia-se, começa a cancelar eventos e a arranjar desculpas e acaba por ficar sozinho na pequena bolha que a sua ansiedade criou para si.

A falta de compreensão, a solidão, o sentimento súbito de não ser amado e de estar para sempre quebrado, tudo isso começa a dominar-nos.

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.

Não é inamável; de facto, por detrás do seu pensar duas vezes antes de falar, da procrastinação por medo, de deixar os outros acabarem as suas frases e nunca dizer as suas, está uma pessoa extremamente amável e muito 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.

O que pode fazer é começar a fazer um esforço para escolher as coisas que merecem a sua atenção e a sua energia. Comece a ser mais seletivo.

Permita-se abrandar, relaxar e encarar as coisas com mais leveza.

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.

Em vez de controlar os seus pensamentos, impeça-os de o controlar. Deixem-nos ir. Deixe-os ir e continue o seu caminho.

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.