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Old Apr 22, 2014, 04:35 AM
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Originally Posted by pachyderm View Post
Some way (internal or external) to interrupt the thoughts that tend to push me into instability -- to guide me instead back to calm.

Those "thoughts" I have are remembrances of actual things that people tell me, or have told me, ways that actual people react to my expressions of anxiety. I don't know of anyone who can deal with any expressions of my anxiety in a calming (but not suppressing) way.

I feel that my expressions of anxiety tend to make other people anxious, and as a result, they try to stop me expressing it.
This can get complicated I think. For me, it would be very easy to think that the guidance to calm would be considered suppressive.
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