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Cake day: May 11th, 2024

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  • Concentrating on my breathing helps a lot, along with simple distractions.

    The big help, though, was anti anxiety drugs. It was amazing, after being at war with my brain for most of my life. It was like - I’d have a bad thought, feel it in my gut, try a distraction, have it fail, have the thought again, on and on until i genuinely broke out or my emotions escalated to panic and it stopped in the post panic numbness.

    With the medicine, the physical reaction petered out. I was able to use other methods like thinking “ok, so you fucked up then. you were a child. you deserved compassion from the adults around you” etc and was actually able to let go and move on.