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After a while we'll do anything to numb out or distract ourselves from the piercing shrill: food, drugs, alcohol, work, anger, obsessive thinking, sex, perfectionism, fighting, spending, hoarding, cleaning, mercilessly talking down to ourselves, social media… Many of these responses are good in the right context. Great, even. But when used to deflect, avoid, or cover up, they become habits. And then addictions. And then identities. Powerful devices to keep the real world at bay. In short order, anxiety can become a miserable, stressful, unpeaceful way of avoidantly navigating the world. These numbing devices usually work for a while. Some of them work really well. They can quiet the alarms and provide temporary relief. But the fire of your life will rage on and on and on. And when we try to cover up or just squash the alarms, we also shut off the good things too.— John Delony
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