We are our own worst enemy

[Blueberry]

Don´t you ever get sick of feeling sorry for yourself? Don´t you get sick of always thinking about yourself? Why do we beat ourselves up with so much negativity? I have high anxiety but I´m also grateful for a roof over my head, clothes on my back, food on my table and a family that loves me. I think about other people in the world right now at this very moment who have truly hard lives - poor or homeless or chronically ill people. My brother was in a motorcycle accident and is now paralysed from the waist down. He doesn´t feel sorry for himself and he lives his life to the fullest even though you couldn´t imagine how hard it is for him to do what we consider normal everyday things like just getting dressed in the morning. Life is so much bigger than ourselves. I want to look outward. I want to help people who are less fortunate. I want to stop focussing so much of my attention on myself and just be.

 

[Doomed2Die]

I am also thankful, and appreciative of what I have. But it's a long shot in dismissing the very real and very serious problems within my/our skulls. And yes, like you I would love to focus on things other than myself, but as usual when something is serious things drift back to the problem.

Admittedly, some have serious anxiety/phobia with all it's complexities, some have lesser variants. Severe depression caused by such problems is one of the more debilitating afflictions in life , in my opinion. It's underplayed or mistaken easily, and difficult to get help with.

It is a very real and sometimes serious problem.

 

[marta]

Great to hear some positive tone, but sometimes no matter how much one tries to look outward and not to be center of the universe...THAT day comes, ruin your mood and just kills ya ...and i should call myself lucky if its ony one day....but yeah...lets look at bright side of the the life...