Opposites repel
Anxiety and peace of mind are mutually exclusive opposites. If you have the former you lose the latter, and to get rid of the former you need to regain peace of mind.
anxiety
With a little bit of bloomin\’ luck
Reading for pleasure is a gift you can lose and suddenly regain
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Silly question
Q. How do you tell whether you are suffering from an illness or from anxiety? A. You can\’t, that\’s the point.
Things that go chomp in the night
Reaching your eighth decade is like walking out on to the Serengeti Plain at night and wondering which one of the predators will get you first.
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Reflex action
You can keep anxiety under control in the same way that you can keep the urge to vomit under control when you have a tummy bug. And, in the same way, when the need to vomit becomes overwhelming, it is uncontrollable; when the pushed-down anxiety needs to emerge, emerge it will.
Breadcrumb trail
Recovering from anxiety is like being lost in a thick dark forest and then realising that the trees seem a little further apart, letting in a little more light; and then more widely spaced, with patches of sunshine; and then suddenly on to a sunny grassy plain with woodland trees here and there. But you