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‘Wow, That Was a Weird Thought!’
6 easy techniques on how to move away from negative thoughts.
All people are prone to having weird thoughts. We all have our fears, and sometimes all there is to spiral down the rabbit’s hole is a small seed of doubt, uncertainty or a rich imagination. Anxiety is a mental illness founded on one of the fundamental human emotions: fear.
Anxiety can be debilitating and can induce all kinds of physical symptoms. I suffered from irritable bowel syndrome for years because of fear of potentially something bad happening with my family. I was always worried about them, and that’s because I wasn’t sure I would be able to cope with losing any of my important family members. Instead of enjoying the time I had left with my grandmother, who was like a mother to me, I worried about her ageing and dying one day.
It wasn’t everything in my head, though. As a child, I lived in a toxic environment with a family where you didn’t know what you were getting for dinner: a fight or food. My mother was mentally unstable and snappy, like her brothers and the entire family. I heard a lot of shouting during my childhood, so whenever it was peace and quiet, I was expecting that it won’t last, and that was just the quiet before the storm.
