anonrising | 58. How many glasses has Orca had?

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No, it's cool, all those anxiety-ridden train of thoughts make sense, I've sorta been there?

He sounds like a cool person and unlikely to cut you off out of the blue.

I know you know this intellectually, but it might still help to hear it from an external source? So I hope this doesn't sound condescending af: Anxiety amplifies things. This transgression feels unforgivable to you, but it was probably just a small blip on his radar that he isn't even dwelling on right now, especially if he knows you fairly well (sounds like he does?) and knows that you are a good person who wouldn't go and mock someone for losing a pet.

There's unfortunately not much to be done about pets, other than enjoy every moment you do have right now with them.

On a personal note, I felt a similar daily sense of doom and dread the older my pet dog got, so I tried to spend extra time and be extra patient with him, and I feel that that paid off because even though I was devastated for months when his time came, knowing that he was safe and happy and loved for his last years made the pain heal a bit faster each time I thought about him.

Guh, sorry, I don't know if this is even helping at all?

Try to take things a minute at a time?

Sometimes I wrote down what kept circling in my head, looked at it and thought "okay, I will give myself 1 whole minute/2 minutes/5 minutes/etc. to ignore this, I won't forget because it's written right here," and tried to do other things, or just close my eyes and sit back for a moment, and those small breaks helped me get a bit of rest and were of practice to break those weird anxiety thoughts that keep leading you to ever bleaker scenarios inside your head, you know what I mean?

sa

Sorry again if I sounded super condescending or if that was unwanted advice

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