Posts tagged covid
why am I buying cocktail dresses in the middle of a pandemic and I don't even drink cocktails?

Around two and a half years ago, I stopped self-medicating and numbing myself with food.

This brought about a balance and clarity I had never before experienced.

I noticed however, that when I stopped using food as a substitute for pleasure and love, I started doing something else.

Every now and then, I went on a shopping spree.

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anxiety and distancing

My neice and I joke that my car has anxiety.

It has a warning light and an alarm that sounds every time I start it, but there’s not actually anything wrong. I mean, I don’t know, there might be something wrong, but I’ve been driving with that warning light and alarm bell for about a year now.

Chronic free-floating anxiety is like that.

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