It's easy to get frustrated with ourselves and wonder why we can't just be like "everyone else". But it helps me to remember that if someone who lived without anxiety was suddenly experiencing it, they would feel overwhelmed too. Not facing hardship does not make you strong; working through challenges does. And I daresay that mentally, we are pretty strong because we're still here, still working on it and figuring things out. 

The other thing that helps me is to think of my brain as a machine. Sometimes machines breakdown for a bit, or aren't working the way they should all the time. It's not your fault. It's no one's fault, really. To state it plainly, that's just the condition it's in at the moment, and sometimes it works better, sometimes worse.

Hopefully this helps because the pressure we put on ourselves certainly doesn't. 😅