Can anxiety make you question random things? I'm kinda going crazy.
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I've been having a high anxiety period for the past three months mainly just health anxiety. But recently, I had started to get over that and my anxiety had nowhere to go and so I didn't have anything specific to worry about.
So now, I'm suddenly questioning myself- things like my morals, my mistakes or wrong things I've done as a child. I keep questioning if whatever I did as a child, is it worth forgiveness even though I know most people make mistakes and do bad things as a child. Ofc I know it's how we act as an adult that's important but I keep questioning, "Am I a bad person for doing xyz as a child/teen?" etc. and just overthinking about it all. It's like....when I get over once incident, another one comes up. And my mind keeps thinking "Aren't these things possibly very bad as an adult? So is it okay if we have done those as a child?"
I also keep wondering if I deserve happiness and stuff like that. Is this just my anxiety making me think like this? Can anxiety even affect this aspect of life?
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jan34534 tzumi56935
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anxiety can definitely cause you to overthink things. It’s called rumination and rumination is very common with anxiety. we play things over and over again in our mind trying to figure things out about the past. So it sounds like this is exactly what you’re doing.
even if you came to the conclusion that what you did as a child was wrong, what is going to come of it? That doesn’t mean that you have to be miserable as an adult. And it is true that children and teenagers don’t always have the same type of reasoning as adults. That’s because their brains are actually not completely matured yet. that doesn’t give anybody excuses to do things that are wrong however as an adult there are some things you would never do now that you did when you were younger.
you need to stop being so hard on yourself. The past does not exist anymore.
And yes, you do deserve to have a happy and joyful peaceful life. The important thing is that you learned something from your past. and that shows maturity. Move forward. Life is too short to live in the past. ❤
jordan20143 tzumi56935
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thing with anxiety is it raises questions & situations in our mind that has no right or certain answer. so naturally our minds look for answers in these thoughts, when no answer is found we then feel more anxious.
"do i deserve happiness" for instance if you look & reflect on past mistakes (which everyone has done at some point) your just going down a rabbit hole, you'll find no Answers in ruminating & thought instead add more layers to your anxiety.
i find learning from my past mistakes to be quite handy, if hour