#feelingangsty

It's been 3 day after the graduation ceremony and i feel that I'm having post high school graduation depression. Three years of highschool might not be a long time but it was enough for me to experience numerous success, failure, joys and sorrows. I know all good things come to an end yet im still reluctant to get over my highschool years. #feelingupset #feelingangsty #latenightthoughts

Love is all but a feeling #FeelingAngsty #jikook #jikookedit #jimin #jungkook #BTS #BangtanBoys #purpose

I think that the both of us experience similar emotions and triggered feelings, but they seemingly stem from different root causes. While you claim that yours stem from codependency, mine presumably stem from a previous relationship with an emotionally abusive partner and fears of encountering the same pains and deceptions. In cognitive behavioral therapy terms, certain events trigger automatic negative thoughts for me where I begin to assume the worst because of prior experience. The feelings that arise as a result of these thoughts are debilitating. What helps is acknowledging that these are illogical thoughts, that this is a different situation and a different person, and these feelings are a result of my own perception alone, not based on any evidence that has presented itself in reality. Rather than experiencing reality based on a narrow, biased filter of prior experience and projected insecurities, we can shift our thought patterns and behavioral responses through various mindfulness techniques, and use intuition to fluidly guide ourselves through each moment as an unadulterated version of itself, a distinctive existence separate (yet intricately connected) to other moments that have arisen. While these thoughts arise, do not attach to them. Let them pass. Do not feed them or emit them onto others. Do not act on them or react to them. When these feelings arise, feel them, listen to them, go into them, observe them, pry pry pry until you figure out the deepest cause of them. Our feelings are always valid, and are nobody’s fault, but sometimes the thoughts that trigger these feelings are not valid. Use intuition and self-reflection to discern irrational thoughts and triggers from actual instances of neglect or abuse that are hurting you. Set boundaries for yourself and for others. Center yourself to the best of your ability and from there figure out the most reasonable order of action that is truest to your highest self (or whether action needs to be taken at all). In times of darkness (which are inevitable, necessary, and hold a particular beauty to them), know that the deepest, most constant source of love and happiness comes from within you and you alone. You are a beautiful being of light, and for light to exist, darkness has to as well. In this space between nothingness and light you are whole, and you deserve a love in return that is as bright as you.