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Mental Health
Sep. 8th, 2021 06:49 pmI received a fantastic gift from my parents today that I'll write about later. It makes me really happy: definitely the best part of my day so far!
Today is a really high fear day. In the past, my mental illness typically manifested as anxiety or depression, but in the past while it's sometimes been fear. There's some overlap between anxiety and fear. Maybe a lot. Anxiety feels like I keep thinking about all the stuff that needs to be done and that's scary. Fear is not being able to think about the things that need to be done at all because I'm too afraid. Meanwhile, depression feels like there's all this stuff that needs to be done but I'm just never going to be able to do it. All these different flavors of related dysfunction!
Today is a really high fear day. In the past, my mental illness typically manifested as anxiety or depression, but in the past while it's sometimes been fear. There's some overlap between anxiety and fear. Maybe a lot. Anxiety feels like I keep thinking about all the stuff that needs to be done and that's scary. Fear is not being able to think about the things that need to be done at all because I'm too afraid. Meanwhile, depression feels like there's all this stuff that needs to be done but I'm just never going to be able to do it. All these different flavors of related dysfunction!
