If anxiety has its way, it will keep you from doing anything on your own behalf. It wants to keep you from reaching out for help, it wants to keep you isolated and alone, it…
Anxiety’s Tricks
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Anxiety wants you to suffer in silence and isolation
by Matt Pappasby Matt PappasAs we’ve been going through this series on Anxiety’s Tricks, it’s my goal to always try to relate each lie of anxiety, to how it feels to an abuse survivor. This latest trick is a…
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Anxiety in disguise, “you are one with me”.
by Matt Pappasby Matt PappasI’m hard pressed to think of something more invalidating and disheartening than the thought of anxiety being one with me, one in the same. Anxiety in Disguise, is the next trick, the next lie that we…
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Anxiety tries to confuse you and overwhelm you.
by Matt Pappasby Matt PappasThis next trick of anxiety, aka lie of anxiety, is where it tries to do it’s best to confuse you. Let’s explore some ways that this can happen, so we can be aware of this…
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Anxiety’s lies, “I’m not worthy, I’m not good enough”.
by Matt Pappasby Matt PappasHave you ever thought to yourself, “I’m not worthy” or “I’m not good enough”? How about, not smart enough, strong enough, or just simply “don’t have what it takes”? As survivors of abuse, these feelings…
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Anxiety tries to tell you that you are untrustworthy.
by Matt Pappasby Matt PappasSomething that anxiety loves to try to do, is make us feel like we can’t trust ourselves; to drive home that feeling that we are incapable of making good decisions. For that matter, that we…
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Anxiety tries to use your vulnerability against you.
by Matt Pappasby Matt PappasAs survivors, we often talk about how being vulnerable is scary. Opening up to someone, even a person that is trustworthy, is far from an easy task when we’ve experienced the trauma of abuse. This…
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Anxiety makes you feel like you are going crazy.
by Matt Pappasby Matt PappasNext up in this series of Anxiety’s Tricks; Anxiety makes you think that you will go crazy, or that you are in the midst of going crazy! What a self-defeating, completely invalidating mindset. It doesn’t…
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