I am tired of how convincing imagined danger can feel

Dear Delyara, That is one of the hardest parts. The body believes it. The mind joins. The whole system organizes around threat. And later I discover the threat was never there in the shape I feared. But the cost is still real. The energy, the fear, the narrowed day, the rehearsed pain — all of it still happened inside me. Anxiety does not need the event to be real in order for the suffering to be real. That feels important to say.