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Maybe we ruin our own lives.
Do you deserve to feel good about yourself?
The first time you experience anxiety is strange.
It feels like waking up and dying at the same time. It feels like growing up and also being cursed to be a scared child for the rest of your life.
It’s like becoming aware of the fragility of your existence but not coming to terms with it.
It’s scary.
It’s scary because anxiety and a negative mindset can very easily take control of your life.
Before you know it, you’re a slave to the voice in your head, and then, that’s your life. You're a person who’s miserable.
Here’s how a negative mindset ruined my life for years, and how I fixed it.
You can get addicted to feeling like shit.
The modern plague isn’t a physical one, it’s a psychological one.
Addiction is rampant, but not just to our smartphones, porn, or caffeine. People also get addicted to being sad.
Our “lives” become dictated by our brain’s immediate chemical reactions to things that we consume.
Take a look:
Every year, 1.79 trillion cigarettes are produced in China alone. The US…