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Old Jul 06, 2015, 03:15 PM
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Everybody gives me false hope and broken promises. It seems as if when people say, "you can accomplish whatever you put your mind to, you can achieve your dreams," seems extremely over exaggerated and even a bit of a lie.
Yeah, that's kind of a lie. What is true, though, is that succeeding at your "dreams" pales in comparison with just enjoying being alive, and if you can enjoy being alive, everything else tends to work out as well.

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...I've seen like three therapists and none of them have helped. I'm Seeing a therapist that does cbt therapy but it's next to impossible to do, because there are so many distressing thoughts in my head about all kinds of things that I can't really challenge or look at them in a different way because some of them actually are true, and some of them aren't really negative, but they spin around and get stuck in my head and I obsess about which makes them really bad. I feel overwhelmed by all the stuff I need to change, my unhealthy eating habits, anxiety, ocd, social anxiety, etc. And I feel that if I don't change them all at once and just do one thing, then in the meantime, my issues that I'm not working on will get worse and that I'll end up giving in to the negative thoughts again. I've also been on 7 different medications, none of which have done much. I also tried mindfulness, but I just quit because I obsess about the future and can't be comfortable in the present moment, there's too many thoughts in my mind and the anxiety is too strong for me to watch and observe it, I just don't know what else to do, it all seems so meaningless and hopeless. Please someone help.
I've got just the thing for you to try. Read these notes and see if they explain what's going on in your head. If so, there is a very easy thing to try. It's going to seem kind of silly, but try it anyway. It really works and it's a great way to get started on a healthy upward path:

http://egg.bu.edu/~youssef/SNAP_CLUB...0164151576.pdf

Here's more stuff too

http://forums.psychcentral.com/4262681-post105.html

- vital