Why Suffering From Anxiety Affects Your Writing Process
A journey to transform anxiety into mindful writing.
Loneliness is not a lack of company. Loneliness is a lack of purpose.- Guilhermo Maldonado
Nobody really cares about your life before you conquer their curiosity.
Don’t waste your time sharing your pains and frustrations because nobody gives care until they give care.
It’s a challenging process- being writing on Medium. In the beginning, we are all tempted to write about ourselves. We constantly share our thoughts and what’s in our minds.
Yet, when does nobody know you, who gives a care?
Sometimes, the advice you tell other people is the advice you need to follow.
How many writers write about a theme thinking they’re instructing their audience?
In fact, they are actually hearing themselves and mentalizing their own subconscious about what they have to do.
One of the learning processes we writers do is drafting some ideas in a paper and rereading it later. This process helps us learn new things about ourselves, too.
The more words we add to our text, the more information we are receiving from our brains.
Most frequently, you say to yourself, as you’re writing, Oh yes, that’s it!
The first time you write it, your brain absorbs the information that was always there. It just didn’t have time to come out.
You find out what you really think by not talking to yourself.
You’re sitting down on your chair in front of your computer, and nothing comes out. Your brain is frozen, and your inspiration went out for a walk.
I think that’s the perfect time for you to stop thinking about yourself.
Go out. Leave home. Go talk to some friends and try to help them. Forget about you.
Listen to what they have to say- just listen. Don’t talk about yourself or think about yourself.
If you repetitively start a phrase with “I,” you are in the process of anxiety or depression.
“However, new research reveals that those who say “I” a lot could be prone to more than just boring people with their egotistical chatter. In fact, they might be more susceptible to a string of psychological problems such as depression and anxiety.”
A study conducted by the University of Arizona shows that repeated use of “I” or “I-talk” may not show narcissism. Such rhetoric could state emotional distress. The University completes with:
In terms of what constitutes excessive I-talk, researchers explained that the average person uses 16,000 words daily, with approximately 1,400 of these being first-person singular pronouns such as “I” or “me.”
I am a good listener, so I’m not in this emotional distress group, but I worked with someone who is. It’s desperate.
Sometimes I cut my ex-boss the I-talk, readjusting conversation in another direction.
By listening to other people, you always end up relativizing your thoughts.
You realize your problems are nothing more than small thoughts that needed a conclusion.
Final Thought
Your thoughts are a conversation with the universe, not just with yourself.
You are talking to the only person you are sure it’s listening to. Yet, the universe is also attending.
When we, writers, are self-talking, we’re preparing something to come out. Something that’s preparing to see daylight.
Don’t worry about the I-talk if you’re absolutely sure you’re talking to the universe, not to yourself.
The universe is always cooking a letter soup to offer us at the next meal, and we have to embrace it.
Be sure you eat everything from that meal. Give everything you have in that next article.
Never forget that on the other side of the paper sheet is always someone eager to learn what you have to say.
The universe is wise, but it is also aware.
No-one has ever become poor by giving.- Anne Frank
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