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Hey Ken, just want to chime in…PSA is the MOST HORRIBLE acronym in my life and probably in the lives of everyone on the forum and beyond.
The gut wrenching anxiety and projection is a real physical response to these 3 letters that seem to be so telling in whether we live or die. They’re NOT But we’ve been conditioned to believe that they are the Be All and End All of our existence.
Your results are really clinically insignificant right now, but your dread and anxiety are not - and that’s OK!! Some of us are better at compartmentalizing our fears; some aren’t (like me) but you don’t need a therapist to tell you how you should feel. If you want to talk to someone about it that’s fine, but there is no cure for how you are built.
I am a chronic worrier and I’ve learned to embrace it, rather than fight it. When that old familiar feeling of dread begins to creep in I just say to myself ‘‘oh well, there I go again”. And I quickly realize that I shouldn’t take myself so seriously because it’s ME who is making this a bigger problem than it is. I didn’t need a therapist to tell me this, just 70 years of living to know who I really am. It’s OK to have fear, but don’t let that single emotion rule your entire life. Best,
Phil
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Hey Phil - great response. I too am a chronic worrier but that comes from life experience. Lots of tragedy, so I’m a glass half empty guy, but I earned it.
As I mentioned elsewhere, I wouldn’t have been so upset if I did not have a retinal detachment recently, which hit me like a truck. I was walking and swimming like my life depended on it feeling great optimistic then one day IAs I mentioned elsewhere, I wouldn’t of been so upset if I did not have a retinal detachment recently, which hit me like a truck. I was walking and swimming like my life depended on it feeling great optimistic then one day I couldn’t see out of my left eye and thought I was gonna go blind there
I may have shrugged off this PSA if not for the retinal detachment, but that injury has thrown me into high anxiety worry wart guy again.
It will pass. But man, all I wanted from God was a < in front of my .05 just to take that one thing off my plate.
I appreciate your insightful words. Once this horrendous heat wave passes I’ll be out walking again and maybe swimming in another two weeks that’s all I need. I think I’ll pass on the whole psychiatry psychologist industry. I could not despise them more. I get more from sites like this including prostate cancer UK.
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Hey, Heavyphil. Thank you. This is one of the best PSA related post I've ever read. For me it's an awaking. Much joy my Friend, much joy.