aphanon_meme ([personal profile] aphanon_meme) wrote2013-09-15 01:06 am

part 340 tender lumplings everywhere

The best season is coming, meme! Halloween season! I mean... fall! Yeah, fall. I love the fall. I actually like every season in its own way, but I think fall has the best atmosphere. Crunching leaves and pumpkins and excuses to decorate the outside of your house with fake spider webs and zombie hands. Also it means... Hetalia Halloween fanart! (Maybe even... something from Himaruya? Maybe? Bueller? No?)

Enjoy part 340!

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Re: ITT: Anxiety

(Anonymous) 2013-09-25 10:41 pm (UTC)(link)
depends on how serious it is. i used to be like that about talking on the phone and above all about giving presentations. and then i had to do a lot of both, for various reasons, and i got actually rather good at it. in my experience, if you want to overcome a fear of any sort, you must face it. accept that you're not so great, but don't look at it like omg omg i need to get this over with because you'll aggravate your fears and you won't be focused enough to be learning from the experience rather than trying to dodge the experience.

i never got the hang of telling myself 'you can do it!' and other positivity because it seems to me unrealistic and corny. i like to tell myself 'you can do better' and then when i'm in some kind of trouble i try to calm myself by thinking in the back of my mind stuff i can do for next time. i'm not believing that i can do it - or at least, that i can do it that well - this time, but i'm believing that i can improve and do better the next time and the next.

this advice is not for those with more serious anxiety issues, such as if pushing yourself this way would lead to an all-out anxiety attack.