Obituary For Peace: Understanding Anxiety Can Sometimes Take Over
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Obituary For Peace: Understanding Anxiety Can Sometimes Take Over

When anxiety takes over and peace takes a break.

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Obituary For Peace: Understanding Anxiety Can Sometimes Take Over
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Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to mourn the temporary loss of peace within the brain. Peace has asked for the cause of this temporary death to be explained rather than wasting time mourning the great moments. Before she left us, Peace assured us that she would be back in time and in the meantime, we should learn about her cause of absence; Anxiety.

Anxiety is sitting in the bathtub at 2:37am with hot water running on your feet for an hour as you fall asleep with your head on your knees, but knowing that getting up will only make you feel worse.

Anxiety is cleaning your room like a maniac because you can't sit still without your mind running at a hundred miles an hour.

Anxiety is trying so hard to avoid a confrontational conversation that you make your friend play twenty two games of UNO with you.

Anxiety is trying to eat your favorite food, but really just moving it around on your plate, because despite your growling stomach, you have no appetite.

Anxiety is lying in an uncomfortable position in bed, but being too afraid to move for fear of feeling like you're going to throw up.

Anxiety is crying to your mom because suddenly October doesn't feel like October.

Anxiety is not wanting to take pain medication even when you need it desperately, but accidentally reading the side effects. Instead, you whine until the pain stops.

Anxiety is trembling for no apparent reason as you try to change the subject in your brain, and instead you only chase a rabbit hole into a darker thought.

Anxiety is the painful irony of not being able to take anxiety medication because trying to swallow a pill causes you to have a panic attack.

Peace did not say when she would be back, but we can all rest in knowing that we will meet again soon. Until then, we shall just hang on for the ride and wait for her return.

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