[minus1]

and it bullies me. It tells me not to do anything. Every possibility out there is dangerous. It laughs at me. It says "haha, you're trying to run away? pathetic, you can't" it tells me I can't do that and I can't do this. I wish it would just go away.

[Skeezyks]

Hello minus1: I'm sorry you are struggling with this. I struggle with similar voices. I practice a Buddhist technique referred to as "compassionate abiding". Here is a link to a nice mental health related description of the practice in case you interested:

https://mindsetdoc.wordpress.com/201...e-abiding-101/

May it be of benefit.

As the 11th century Buddhist Machig Labdrön said: "In other traditions demons are expelled externally. But in my tradition, demons are accepted with compassion."

[*Laurie*]

My anxiety sometimes bullies me, too. Tells me my appeals to God are pointless, and so on. I just try to power through those 'old tapes' from childhood, because I believe that's what the voices in my head are...memories of being bullied during my childhood. Maybe it's the same for you.

[worrist]

Treat it like you would any other bully. Stand up to it. Question it. It's hard at first. But it gets easier with time.

[alpacalicious]

Face and confront this voice. In CBT there is a exercise called ABC that my T told me when I first started. Basically, you have to write down your anxious thoughs that emerge in different situatons (example: I'm at school, I start to think "my classmates will laugh at me or nobody will talk to me; these are anxious thoughts, because they led you to become anxious, maybe you'll start to sweat, or to shake, and you'll avoid things). Then when you recognize these thoughts you confront them, you ask yourself "are they really true? Are they realistic? And why? ".

[Fuzzybear]