Monday, March 20, 2023
Thought you should know...
Feelings don't try to kill you, even the painful ones. Anxiety is an emotion grown too large. A mental state grown aggressive and dangerous. You're responsible for its consequences, you're responsible for treating it. But, you're not responsible for causing it. You're not morally at fault for it. No more than you would be for a tumor. Anxiety was born in the very same moment as mankind. And since we will never be able to master it, we will have to learn to live with it - just as we have learned to live with storms.
He passes people in the street every day who feel the same as him, many of them just don't know what it is. Men and women going around for months having trouble breathing and seeing doctor after doctor because they think there's something wrong with their lungs. All because it's so damn difficult to admit that something else is broken. That it's an ache in our soul, invisible lead weights in our blood, an indescribable pressure in our chest. Our brains are lying to us, telling us we're going to die. But there's nothing wrong with your lungs, Karr.