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By Osaro Igwe
Our anxiety can lead to seek isolation, but isolation can also perpetuate our anxiety. It is important to seek social support and connection when we feel lonely and worried.
Finding someone we can talk to, so we don’t feel isolated and lost in our heads can offer us real relief. We shouldn’t be ashamed to look up to our friends for help and advice, to provide a welcome perspective or even help guide us to the support we need.
Our friends also tend to provide a welcome and brief distraction. When we are alone, we are more likely to ruminate in negative thoughts and fall down one of the rabbit holes our critical inner voice is putting forth.
Unless crowds are a cause for our anxiety, we can also simply go out to public places, perhaps to a pretty park to admire Nature, visit a bar or mall.
Go to orphanage homes with gifts. Visit motherless homes and schools with sanitary pads.
Set aside time to volunteer or take a class to learn new hobbies and read new novels and books, like the Manipulated man, and Broke after pay day.
Volunteer to speak to schools. Be involved and part of Community cleanings. These activities remind us that there is a whole world waiting for us outside of our worries.
Withdrawal syndrome is like inviting early death.
As we celebrate the weekend: May we be reminded that, our failures and success in life are as the result of the positive or negative use of our “Freewill”, which is the integral part of the human spirit.
The Choices we make and the Decisions we take everyday have nothing to do with prayers, fasting, tithes and night vigils or whether we sleep in the church everyday. Happy Weekend.