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Worry and anxiety
Anxiety is not a character flaw and it is not weak faith. It is a body doing what it was built to do, at a moment when it is not needed. The practices here work on the loop itself: what worry promises and never delivers, what avoiding costs you, and how to let the body come down.
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23 practicesTheme · Treatment and medication
How long you have
When · Any ordinary day
This explains how treatments work. Never start, stop or change a medication because of something you read here.
Some anxiety medicines have no fast setting at all. They work on the receiving side of the system and take two to four weeks to show anything, so taking one in a bad moment does nothing and proves nothing.
For the right person the trade is a good one: nothing to become dependent on, no withdrawal, no dangerous mixing with alcohol, and nothing to reach…
The gentler alternatives are for avoiding a habit forming medicine in the first place. They cannot carry someone who is already dependent, and offering one as a straight swap mid crisis sets everybody up to fail.
Once a body has adapted to one of these medicines, only a careful reduction of that same medicine will get a person off it, and a different drug will…
Take a few photographs of your bedroom, then look at them later and circle whatever has to change or go. Seeing the room in a picture shows you things you stopped noticing years ago while standing in it.
The list is usually short and dull: the light on a charger, the pile of unfinished things on the chair, the television, the clock you keep checking.…