Caroline Lampinen
Sep 7, 2018 · 1 min read

I appreciate this and understand! Anxiety for me comes in waves. I get anxiety about even saying I have anxiety, because I have many loved ones with much more severe and constricting experiences living with it — i get anxious that my anxiety isn’t intense enough to call anxiety!

I say that just to say I know re-framing only works so much, and that thinking of it as some kind of asset only is helpful to so much of a degree. But this week, when it gets overwhelming (I had an interview yesterday and am about to get surgery for the first time), it’s helpful to think of it as a really annoying friend or family member that is not an evil monster and might have some tiny good bits.

    Caroline Lampinen

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