You are not an anxious person — you are a person with an anxiety framework running, and the deepest fear isn’t that they’ll leave, but that you’ll discover you were always whole without them.
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“Holding space” and similar therapeutic phrases sound like care while requiring nothing of the speaker and offering nothing to the sufferer—they’re a script that protects the giver from actually feeling your pain while confirming your fear that no one can truly reach you. The suffering is real, but you are not the one suffering; you are the awareness watching it happen, and recognizing this distinction is what dissolves the framework that keeps you trapped.
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