Dear Christy Lim:

A person who is anxious and has been anxious for a long time cannot will themselves to no longer be anxious. You can say to yourself: I don’t like being anxious, so from now on I will not be anxious!- but it doesn’t work that way. It takes a long time to train the brain to be less and less anxious. You bring up a good point about “the healing percentage”- can I be not anxious at all, I ask myself, day in and day out, for a whole week, in the future? I don’t know. I have to be patient and keep going, keep doing my best to heal.

You wrote that “People said things happened for a reason”- you mean that there is a purpose for you being anxious- that it was planned by a god entity for a “good reason”? If so, I don’t believe that at all. Not everything that people say is correct, you know. Anxiety is not a good thing and there is no purpose for it. It never helps.

anita