Tag: Real
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Thinking Doesn’t Change a Thing
“To think too much is a disease.” – Fyodor Dostoyevsky Do you ever replay the same moment in your head so many times that it stops feeling real? For me, I replay conversations, read into the small details, and end up stuck in a rut of feeling stuck in my own head – the one…
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Embracing Change
I know first hand the anxiety that can overwhelm you when you hear of a change of plans. It can feel like a punch in the gut – it can make your stomach drop and heart race – but why? The short answer? Our brains crave predictability, When we have replayed possible scenarios over and…
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The Weight of Feeling Nothing
Katy Perry once said: “Do you ever feel like a plastic bag, floating through the wind, wanting to start again?”, so let’s talk about why the answer is an astounding YES. While everybody experiences life differently, I’m sure at one point or another, we’ve all experienced the feeling of nothingness. The feeling where we’re not…
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Navigating Anxiety and Body Image in Your 20s
Something that nobody tells you about hitting 20, is not only how much we change mentally, but also how many physical changes we go through. We constantly hear people preaching about how we will soon reach ‘Mental Maturity’, but what they neglect to mention, is the changes that come when we hit ‘Second Puberty’. Our…
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Understanding the Five Stages of Grief
I’ve done a lot of research and reading up about grief since my Grandad passed, and I’ve learnt one thing: that your grief is uniquely yours. Even with shared experiences, and shared feelings of the person you’ve lost, nobody will ever really experience grief the same way you do. It affects everyone differently and at…
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How I Conquered Anxiety and Found Hope
This post is mainly just an update from my previous post: ‘How Anxiety Affected Me’. I recently came to realise that I ended the previous posts on my relationship with anxiety as rather negative. I was at a point where I was struggling to leave the house, find work, and I was beginning to implement…
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The Impact of Anxiety on My Life
Anxiety is different for everyone. For some, it’s daily panic attacks, for others, it might be feeling anxious before school. With this post, I’m going to share how anxiety affected me. Let’s start at the beginning… I can’t remember exactly when I started feeling anxious – it was more so a kind of feeling that…
My Mind, Mostly. 