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Trueblue Texan

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20. And anti-anxiety meds...

Fri Apr 4, 2025, 08:43 AM

Apr 4

Every single one of the OP's concerns are important and valid. Who can blame anyone for being anxious these days? We've got to find ways to train our brains to focus on thoughts that give us some peace each day. Otherwise, we get completely overwhelmed and deplete our own reserves of strength and energy we need to make things better. Our brains are powerful and can suck us into that vortex of overwhelm very quickly if we don't practice some kind of activity to calm ourselves and claim our peace. Nature is big one for me, even if it's to look at the sky or the bare starkness of a tree before spring comes along. If we can't find some way to sooth ourselves, we might anti-anxiety meds or some other artificial means to turn our minds around. Once the brain starts on that track of despair and anxiety, it's hard to get it to switch tracks without some kind of chemical boost.

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