#like ive never been able to relate to the 'theres an anxiety gremlin in my brain that tells me evil things so i have to shut him up' | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

garpond · 1 year

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extremely specifc and potentially just a me thing but. if ur aware that youre struggling with mental health issues but feel offended and defensive and upset by the common depiction of mental illness as a hostile entity living in your brain/a dark side of yourself/etc in a way that suggests that it's ego-dystonic and originating from some hostile internal factor. it might be worthwhile to consider that your struggles have their roots more substantially in traumatic experiences than they do in purely biological chemical imbalances in ur brain

#like ive never been able to relate to the 'theres an anxiety gremlin in my brain that tells me evil things so i have to shut him up'#and im not saying its bad!! esp for people who dont have trauma but have anxiety/an anxiety disorder #but like on some level i have always known that the things im afraid of have basis in my experiences #even when i didnt want to confront that knowledge #and it made me feel hurt and alienated from myself to imagine them as being wholly irrational or self constructed #and looking back i think that's why that technique doesnt work for me

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