If I learnt one valuable lesson, it is that we were never put on this earth to suffer and that suffering is our alarm call. It is telling us that what we are doing is not serving us in life and that a change is needed.

you will never get better until you stop trying to get better”

I didn’t feel so self-aware because of anxiety; I felt so self-aware because I had spent months on end obsessing about me and how I was feeling.

Rather than searching for recovery or demanding it, you have let it come to you.

The truth is that it’s not you that is thinking about your anxiety; it’s your mind’s habit to continually think about the subject.

The answer is that adrenalin affects your body by making it work much faster than usual and can drain the energy from your muscles. This is the reason your limbs may ache and why you feel so physically tired at times.

Worrying basically comes down to wanting one’s life to go perfect and to fit into your ideal of what should and should not happen;

The main thing is to try and have as little self-pity as possible and genuinely believe this is not you forever.

heal. Previously, I used to wake up and monitor how I felt and spend all day trying to do something about it. I finally accepted that when I woke, I would feel tired and anxious, my mind would probably race and that I would feel odd and detached for most of the day. I would not ignore it or pretend to like it, but for once I was not going to try an