Advice - Anxiety/Depression

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Anxiety/depression:

- you are not gonna die for fucks sake

- Learn to mistrust the devil on your shoulder

- Pep-talk yourself through a hard situation

- Stop exaggerating about EVERYTHING. Remember, there is a life out/after high school

- Take things lighthearted

- Set your boundaries

- Don't tie your emotions to food

- Watch out for your triggers

- Practice positive thinking

- Accept that you can't control everything

- Keep an anxiety diary

- Calm down, it will end

- Feel your feelings when they come

- The more you avoid your feelings, the more power they have over you

- If the noise is making you feel anxious listen to "white noise" on youtube (with headphones)

- You're not going to have depression for the rest of your life (I hope) but you'll always have anxiety so just accept it and move on

- (I know it's weird) try to rehearse social interactions in the mirror BUT don't get disappointed if it doesn't go as well as it did before

- You are not trapped, you can always leave BUT you are not going to

- Stop being scared of being scared (that's exactly what is happening right now or else I wouldn't be writing all of this crap)

- Do not _________, I don't fucking care about your reasons, the more you do it the more difficult it is to stop

- If you're always on your own mind at least be productive about it

- Remember, you are not the only one feeling like this. You're not saying anything about what you're going through and a lot of people are doing the same

- You are going to have bad days, but please wait for the better ones

- Try to keep a positive attitude

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