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He asked her what it's like living with anxiety. She smiled sadly, "It's a never-ending pulse-race. Like knowing you don't want to jump off a cliff but not being able to talk yourself down from it. Your fears take on a nebulous, unidentifiable form that tightens around your throat and incapacitates you. There is no calm. No peace. Only the edge of a very strained thread."
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Mar 12, 2019
Mar 12, 2019 at 10:27 AM UTC
The World We Suffer In
He asked her what it's like living with anxiety. She smiled sadly, "It's a never-ending pulse-race. Like knowing you don't want to jump off a cliff but not being able to talk yourself down from it. Your fears take on a nebulous, unidentifiable form that tightens around your throat and incapacitates you. There is no calm. No peace. Only the edge of a very strained thread."
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Mar 12, 2019
Mar 12, 2019 at 10:27 AM UTC
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