Shifting Perspectives: How Beautiful Things Can Come from Tragedy
How the Van Gogh Experience and going back on medication changed the way I thought about my mental health
Sometimes, it feels like I’m walking through life on a tightrope and that any little thing could tip me over the edge at any moment. Thoughts rumble around my head at over one hundred miles an hour at every moment of the day, and I know it will take just one of those before I tumble to the ground from great heights.
Living with anxiety is exhausting. The thoughts that litter my mind so heavily every day are often thoughts about things that will never happen. But my head convinces me in the middle of the night there is every possibility that my worries can come true. And when I’m not worrying about hypothetical situations, I’m just thinking, nonstop. It’s often never quiet inside my head.
Sometimes, this can make it hard to focus on conversations or getting through the working day. But it can also make it hard to focus on the positive things because I’m so wrapped up in these incessant thoughts that never seem to go away, whatever I try to do.
It was on a recent trip to London with a friend whereI was given the poignant reminder that despite the inner turmoil or mental health struggles…
