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Overthinking and living in fear
Depression & Anxiety | Last Active: Oct 28, 2023 | Replies (62)Comment receiving replies
For a long time after having a stroke, I was in constant terror of having another.
Long before that, I worried about my health a lot.
Now I realize that was a huge amount of wasted worry -- and wasted time. (Almost all worry is, of course. as the Bible tells us.)
Years of psychotherapy have helped me a lot. I'm not by any means a fatalist, but I now look at what's right with me instead of wrong. It's a long list.
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The Bible tells us to cast all our cares on Him (Jesus) because he cares for you. Nowhere does it say, "then go back a few days later and pick them all back up again." Too many people live on a spiritual and mental merry-go-round. Up. Down. Up. Down. Cast, then don't go looking for what you gave away.
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I’m not on my own because I have a partner and he is a good person…some people just feel awkward and they don’t know what to say, he’s always done his best to help me get around…my pain is more with my own family and extended family members, they have never been very supportive.. I was thinking that maybe having cancer would make a difference but alas it didn’t. The toughest thing I have to learn is how to shut my mind off but instead I let too many dark thoughts get inside me and all I know is I hurt myself this way by thinking about them. I’m not a young woman so I should have learned better by now but old habits are hard to break. I admire people who deal with terrible things and they still keep a positive attitude, they are truly admirable…