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What was the best thing you learned in the past year?

(Warning this gets a bit serious and I talk about death) I can’t seem to see my daily prompts so I am just using a question generator! Interesting questions so far!

The best thing I learned in the past year….mmmm

Ah! I think it is helping myself not to be as anxious over my own health! I have health anxiety and I saw a therapist for it, for a couple of months and she really helped me!

She helped me talking about my fears and how I’d deal with it if my anxiety was true but she also made me understand how unlikely it was, that I would have something seriously wrong with me and that made me feel a lot better.

But yeah not being as worried about my health definitely has helped me feel more relaxed and it also helped with my anxiety over accidents happening as well.

So yeah I think learning about how not worry over death as much and illness. She talked to me about it and showed me some videos that gave me a slightly different perspective.

For example one of my big fears is death. I am in my late twenties but despite that I feared an accident or health problems, so apart from helping me understand how low that probability was, she helped me think about death in a different perspective.

I always assumed that after death you just cease to exist. That it’ll be like what it’s like before you existed, you just become nothing after your body stops working.

She correctly told me that no one knows what happens after death so I shouldn’t treat my own theory as fact and there was nothing wrong with me imagining something that I wanted to happen (that you somehow still exist after death) rather than just treating my own theory as fact and that’s it.

My main fear about death is ceasing to exist, everything you are just gone. But since no one truly knows what happens, there’s no reason that I can’t give myself a better ending in my imagination rather than just clinging on to my (you cease to exist and that that)

So that makes me feel a lot better as well!

I’ll try and stick with a light subject next time!

(Edit, I am doing this thing where I spin a wheel and it’ll tell me what hobbies to focus on for the day, today it’s this travel blog)