How I Plan To Keep My Anxiety Under Control When I Move To Spain
Learning from people who project their out-of-control anxiety on the world
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I have watched — and continue to watch — people close and adjacent to me, who have debilitating anxiety. And, almost to a person, they normalize their conditions.
This is their way of taking control.
Chalking up resistance to new things or refusing to do anything outside of a super rigid and structured routine of self-imposed limited options as a perfectly sane and logical choice, rather than what it is. A coping mechanism to artificially remove layers of anxiety as to not have to deal with them.
As my wife and I prepare to move to Spain in just four-and-a-half months now (!), I know that my anxiety could come to the surface.
Actually, it’s always there. Just below and sometimes at the surface. I think it’s an underlying reality for many of us. The key is to appropriately squash it when it bubbles up.
The way I have been framing my thoughts on anxiety and attendant growth as a person ever…
