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What you wrote may mean you are thinking about ending your life or hurting yourself. If it does, please reach a person today. You do not need to be certain, and you do not need to explain it well.
What you wrote may mean someone is hurting you, threatening you or forcing you. If that is right, it is not yours to carry alone, and there are people whose job this is.
What you wrote may mean a child is being hurt, or that you are afraid you might hurt one. If you are frightened of what you might do, telling a doctor today is the right thing to do.
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Inshirah is not a crisis service. Nobody reads what you write here, so nobody here can come to you. That is why this points you to people who can.
Every practice in the library, in one list. Narrow it by how long you have, who it is written for, and where you are right now.
Whatever approach the anxious person is learning, teach it to the people they live with. A skill that only one person in the house knows gets overridden by everyone else's habits.
Families have a settled way of responding to distress, usually built out of love, and it will win against anything learned in an hour once a week. So…
Online you can edit, delete, mute and leave. People who have done most of their socialising that way often find ordinary company unbearable, because ordinary company cannot be controlled.
If that describes you, the answer is not to become a different sort of person. It is practice in rooms you cannot manage: a class, a job with shifts,…
With a child, make it a job rather than a lesson. They are the detective, the worried thought is the claim, and the task is to collect what supports it and what does not before deciding anything.
Two columns on a page, in their handwriting, not yours. Ask what a friend would notice, what happened the last three times, what would have to be…
Do not tell a child their thinking is wrong, and do not hand them the better thought. Ask the questions and let them arrive at it themselves.
A conclusion someone reaches on their own stays with them. One that was given to them falls apart the moment they are frightened, because it was…
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