Take the red pill. Recognize when evil forces are messing with your mind.
There are times when I’m so stressed that nothing feels right. Heck, at those times I did not even know I was “stressed” — it simply felt like the whole world was out to get me. Lady at the grocery store, drivers on the road, my neighbor, all seemed god damned evil.
The mind is a tricky thing. Either control it or be controlled. The key is making it flow in the good direction.
- Be sane enough to acknowledge that the whole world is not out to get you. (TBH it’s not even about you most of the time.)
- Then it must be the stress.
- Figure out your “triggers”, and keep them away tomorrow.
It took me a while to realize it’s caffeine and sleep deprivation. Those two devils together takes me (and unfortunately sometimes my loved ones) into a world of hurt. Whenever anxiety hits me, I ask myself, “did you have caffeine? Did you sleep well?”. 90% of the time those two are the culprits.
One can keep a journal to figure out their “triggers”. (Maybe there should be apps that do this.) What are yours?
P.S. I realized that the only person who can dig me out of this hole is myself, by pressuring against the pressure from the inside. Exercise and sleep, my friend.
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