• TheDoctorDonna
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      2 years ago

      Don’t listen to your anxiety isn’t particularly helpful and is much easier said than done. If you can just say “fuck it” and do it, then great for you 👍 but don’t pretend that’s viable advice for the general anxious population. When talking to people and being overstimulated gets you so anxious you start hysterically crying and vomitting saying “fuck it” and doing it anyways isn’t going to help.

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          2 years ago

          You also seem to think that because you did it anyone can,and that’s not how it works. Do you think people like living this way or something? Of course people want to get better,but getting help certainly isn’t as easy as “fuck it, let’s go”. Who can even afford to do any of those things?

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            2 years ago

            I get what you’re saying but you know it doesn’t hurt to try things right? I tried lots of different things to help with my anxiety before I got somewhere with it.

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              2 years ago

              I never said it did, I’m just saying that that bar is a lot harder for some people to reach and it very obviously isn’t as simple as “fuck it”. Some people need outside intervention before they are able to get the help they need. And again, there’s the fact that all of the things that help cost enormous amounts of money or are completely unavailable. The original commenter makes it sound as if anyone can just go and get help as long as they themselves can gather the courage but that is simply untrue.

              Also, I’m not someone who can’t go out, I have a job that I attend daily and people I interact with regularly.

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                2 years ago

                I mean, I helped myself and that didn’t cost me a dime and I certainly never got much help from any therapists I actually paid.

                Like I said, people should just be more open to trying things.