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[hummingwolf]

Why is it that when you're anxious, it often seems impossible to act even when you're certain that action is better than doing nothing? Why is it so hard to make yourself do something even when you know that avoidance will only increase your anxiety?

Why don't I make more sense?

Argh.

It probably would have helped if I'd gotten more than 5 hours of sleep last night. Maybe.

Right then, that's enough whining before lunch. I need lunch. Then I need to get myself to do something relevant rather than one of the many irrelevant things that seem so appealing today.

Comments

[skygypsy.livejournal.com]

i don't know but i do that all the time.

pretty much cuz whatever it is, i just don't want to deal with it.

/waves to fellow stubborn head ;)

/shares my brownie with you

[darth-spacey.livejournal.com]

This seems appropriate, from Dune by Frank Herbert...

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."

They wrote. . .

[mystified13.livejournal.com]

They wrote a whole play on that problem-- it was "Hamlet". Good play! Full of good questions, definitely. . .

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

Mmm... brownie.

Thanks, Pixiechick!

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

I love Dune, but the Bene Gesserit did get a lot of people killed, didn't they?

Seriously, fear can be a good thing when used properly. This hasn't been a week for me using it properly, but that's the way life goes sometimes.

Re: They wrote. . .

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

Fortunately, no ghosts have been telling me to kill any family members. This is a good thing when all the relatives are bigger than I am anyway.