This is an interview with someone who has suffered with stress and anxiety.

Tony: How did you feel at the time you were stressed?

A: Physically, I felt on fire inside. I felt very, very trapped, but I felt scattered, all over the place. Couldn’t gather myself together. I felt extremely restless, couldn’t sit still, couldn’t sleep properly, not in control of my thoughts, not in control of a lot of my actions, not in control of my dietary needs. I was smoking a hell of a lot. I would flip from feeling very scared to feeling very apathetic to feeling to feeling very excited to feeling very empty, nervous, strong, lost, weak, together. Never long enough in one particular mood. It was just too much, it was all over the place. Very rushed inside, everything felt very, very rushed inside. Like something had to be done, something had to be done, something had to be done, but I couldn’t gather myself together to make sometimes even the smallest of decisions. Angry with the outside world and my own internal world. Sad. Tense. Very aware of the stress.

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Learning to remember that little steps are the road to massive change is extremely important. Spiritual progress takes place over time with consistent effort. At times it may seem like very little progress is being made but there is still a change going on beneath the surface. As things change beneath the surface, the ground of your ego will slowly begin to give way and an eventual landslide is sure to come.

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