Really I’m just asking what’s the best way to deal with anxiety, or if ignoring it to the point of ambivalence is unhealthy.
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After a week of doing edibles that are way too strong for me, my brain got a little rewired and my brain got rewired (nothing extreme just noticed how I feel about specific things have changed)
But I had a “time is a flat circle” moment with a my foster/adopted cat looking like my dead cat I had for 17 years and having to realize that I’m helpless to watch everyone grow old and die. Now that I’m sobering up I’m accepting it and moving on, but I think about “what’s the best way to tackle anxiety”
Emotions are just information your body sends fo you. So the goal is to figure out the meaning behind it and then determine/overcome the root cause. If you’ve always struggled with anxiety, it started in your childhood - could be trauma related, could be your temperament, could be a chemical issue. Anyway, it sounds like it’s bringing up your abandonment issues. I use inner child work for this kind of thing - so I would try to remember the core wound and then process the grief. There are many ways to do this kind of work though but nothing else has helped me.