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”

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    12 hours ago

    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.