I want the answer. The one, single answer which will solve all my problems.
Category: Happiness
Oh no, I’m Motivated By Fear!
Now that I’m (mostly) successfully managing my anxiety, everything should be great forever… right?! Well, no. Obviously life isn’t magically perfect. (Though of course “less anxiety” is a huge improvement!) This is fine. I never expected perfection. But something else I didn’t expect was that managing anxiety better could itself cause problems.
My Life Is Not Worth Living
I sometimes felt like my life isn’t worth living.
Enjoying The Bad Days Too
For most of us, learning to be happy after anxiety isn’t a smooth journey. If you pushed me into saying more, I’d go as far as saying it’s a bumpy journey. In fact, I’d probably get over-excited and go super-metaphorical about it:
Happiness Isn’t About Feeling Happy
“What is happiness?” This question has been ruined. Ruined!
Is Reality Enough to Make Us Happy?
As a child, I firmly believed in magic.
What I Learned In Berlin & Copenhagen (About The Future, Flying Vegetables & Travel Anxiety)
Anybody who has known me for even a short time knows I am attracted to ridiculousness like a moth attracted to fire. Where the thing on fire is a cow dressed as clown. (Of course, it’s possible that ridiculous events are attracted to me, and not the other way around. I’ve never been able to…
Shoot The Moon (And Aim For Happy)
In the addictive card game, Hearts, the play that scores the most points is known as ‘Shooting the Moon’. I’m greatly in favour of this. The moon has sat there for long enough, arrogantly watching over us. For aeons it has floated judgementally over the Earth, thinking it’s better than us, all ‘romantically’ flying around…