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How You Can Prevent Your Mental Health From Sabotaging Your Work
When working feels impossible
A few weeks ago my brain broke.
It happened all of a sudden: my hands started shaking uncontrollably and it was like my body wasn’t responding to me anymore.
It was scary and for the first time in my life, I saw my anxiety taking over, leaving me on the bed, nothing more than a tired vessel shattered on the ground.
So I did what every sane and scared person would do in these cases: I trusted Google with my diagnosis and the results were even more terrifying.
In the span of ten minutes, my body went from being perfectly normal to have Parkinson’s Disease, Multiple Sclerosis, Hyperthyroidism and a Brain Tumor.
It was only when I decided to talk to a Neurologist that I found out my anxiety was sending me signals that I ignored for a very long time.
Pretty much like those texts your friends send you and you pretend not to see.
I was perfectly healthy, I just wasn’t listening.
My body was turning against me and if I didn’t act quickly and actually stop for a second and listen to what my brain was telling, it could have gone much worse.
