Practical applications like therapy, meditation, and other self care and anxiety treatments are all extremely important and I recommend doing all of them. But reading through this subreddit and seeing every single thing I go through on a daily basis are also things everyone else goes through, is easily the one thing that reassures me I’ll make it through this. There’s nothing quite so relieving as being up late at night due to anxiety, coming on this Reddit, and seeing someone else saying they’re up late for the exact same reason as I am. Even when I recently got new symptoms like derealization, headaches and indigestion, I was still able to come here and see that it’s more likely than not just the same anxiety I’ve always had manifesting in a different way after I got over previous symptoms. I guess if there’s one thing it’s taught me it’s that we are all going to be okay, and none of us are alone. I can tell you right now if you’re currently up late and can’t sleep due to anxiety and a possible not so subtle thought that you’re gonna die, well so are millions of other people. Let’s just keep riding these waves until the waters calm. I’m terrified of nothing but oh well, I’ve survived 100% of these thoughts and sensations so far and will survive 100% more. And if for some reason a sensation does end up being one that can actually kill me then my hands are probably tied in doing anything about it anyways, so let’s just accept that we got some wacky thought processes and let them play out until one day we don’t care anymore. Love anyone who is reading this.