Tips for anxiety and depression 🧵

I've had three distinct rounds of debilitating anxiety in my life, and the focus could be described as "death anxiety".
Ages 23-24, ages 26-27 and ages 30-33. Both my parents prone to it. I am now 39 with no new recurrence. Here's my advice. Firstly, identify the cause of the depression.

Often, people have simply been forcing themselves to do something they don’t want to do and either their body or mind or both give out from the strain. This type will benefit from the same advice as the type stuck in a thought.

A thread on dating (apps)

There seem to be two particular strategies going on, and much like owning a Mac vs owning a PC, there is a one-way street of abuse from the people in one strategy railing against the behaviours of the other strategy. This is because one goal is socially acceptable (dating/romance/love) and the other is not (sex).

(As a society we really, really need to change that).

Here are some things I've noticed:

A thread of quotes taken from 'Impro' by Keith Johnstone. For more context, I wrote a review of the book here

https://twitter.com/ssica3003/status/1149695036692586496

‘At school any spontaneous act was likely to get me into trouble. I learned never to act on impulse, and that whatever came into my mind first should be rejected in favour of better ideas. I learned that my imagination wasn’t ‘good’ enough.’