Awake & Alive
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Last published Tue, Jul 25, 2017
Anxiety. Depression. The structure of just those two words sounds so simple; Alas, they are anything but simple.
Anxiety. Like a monster, it claws at your insides with no mercy. Depression. It leaves you numb to life, it's like jumping into a churning, roaring sea with a ball and chain on your foot. It's no easy feat to live under such conditions...
Here's the thing:
It can either make a person. Or it can break a person. It only brings fear and darkness to those who let it consume them. But there's a choice. You can rise, or you can run. The choice is yours to decipher. Just like it was mine....
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