You need to realize sometimes people literally aren't able to just "stop worrying". People used to give that advice to me all the time and it was literally impossible. It made me hate myself because I'd unwillingly latch onto the stupidest things and they made me miserable but I couldn't push them out of my mind. I later learned I have OCD and intrusive thoughts entering my mind and staying there is something that's physiologically out of my control. Receiving advice to simply "stop" doing X, Y, or Z made my life hell for a lot of years
IIN that I tend to please whoever is in front of me?
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You need to realize sometimes people literally aren't able to just "stop worrying". People used to give that advice to me all the time and it was literally impossible. It made me hate myself because I'd unwillingly latch onto the stupidest things and they made me miserable but I couldn't push them out of my mind. I later learned I have OCD and intrusive thoughts entering my mind and staying there is something that's physiologically out of my control. Receiving advice to simply "stop" doing X, Y, or Z made my life hell for a lot of years