Recently I've been struggling with my eating, and it begs me to question if I can get over it. The answer is probably yes, considering I'm only 18 and on the whole scale of my life this is very menial. But, for years I've been a patient to social anxiety and only just now have I been questioning that. It started when I was 14, and inevitably my life has changed a huge amount for me in the last four years. So why is my anxiety different now? I'm curious. Go to any mental health expert and they'll recommend CBT (cognitive behavioural therapy) to attempt to change your thinking patterns and learn coping mechanisms to deal with whatever you're dealing with. But is that really what "cures" you? I'm biased on this because CBT only gave me a family tree and the realisation of how hard depression was going to be to get over, if you can't even talk to your own mother about how you feel. But even so, I'm not convinced that therapy really does help. They say that time is the best healer, and why is that? I have an answer; because things change. Because you're not in that situation anymore and so it's not really a problem you have to face. So ultimately, it's avoidance until you don't need to avoid any longer.
Better start meditating.
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