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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • My father left this city 7 years ago, because he was having constant panic attacks after some thugs tried to rob us a few times. He went to live in a small, almost dead town, where sometimes he needs to hunt and fish to have something to eat.

    So I agree, this anxiety is just my body telling me I should get the fuck out of here too. But I don’t want to throw my whole life away, so I’ll keep going, one day at a time.


  • It’s winter where I live. Temperature should be around 10ºC but some places registered 30ºC. And this week we’ll have our 4th hurricane of 2023. My house is old and I fear soon I’ll wake up without a roof.

    My anxiety is so bad today. I keep trying to find new ways to deal with it, meds, meditation, exercise, but how the fuck am I supposed to keep up?



  • Yeah, I need to hit the gym more. This week I managed to go only 2 times. But I agree that it helps a lot, it’s just hard to have enough energy left to go after a full day of work.

    AHDH caused me a lot of trouble in the past. I blamed myself too much. Now I deal with it a lot better, knowing that it isn’t my fault, that I’m not just lazy.

    Now I think my anxiety is being caused mainly from the lack of financial stability. For example, we just had a damn hurricane here in my city and the roof of my house almost went flying. I would have to sell my car to repair it. Maybe I will have to, because the climate is surely not getting better. Thoughts like this keep buzzing in my head all the time.

    It sucks, there’s far too many things that are out of my control. I just need to improve my ability of dealing with them. Smoking weed helps me to forget about problems for a while, but I still need to deal with them somehow.


  • Great answer. I’m not overwhelmed by the replies, so feel free to write to your heart’s content hahah. It helps me and maybe it’ll help others too.

    I look forward to your meditation videos, it’s a very interesting approach.

    I have a lot of trouble with capitalism as well. Sometimes I feel that I’ve lost my sense of self. It’s like I’ve turned into a part of a big machine, that is going to a place where I don’t want to be.

    The things you said to increase, like walking, nature appreciation, creativity (I’m a musician) help me to regain my sense of self and to find meaning in what I’m doing. Unfortunately, living in a third world country, with a lot of work for little pay, makes it hard to have energy left to pursue those things. But I’ll keep on trying.

    Thanks for your reply and wish you the best.