Hack Off Anxiety #3: Delay Your Gratification

A fair number of articles on my blog will revolve around personal experiences, including the most recent life-changing struggle I underwent over 2023: Anxiety. My aim with this series, which has been named “Hack Off Anxiety”, is to provide an accessible, real, and personable insight into my struggles with anxiety in bits and pieces; if this series can help make even one person’s life happier, it will be fully worth it. Each article typically includes an active step that one may take in order to make things better. Keep in mind that I am not a medical professional and none of the words I say should be taken as medical advice but rather as anecdotal lessons that have helped me.

While I do not condone intoxication in general, my experiences with being drunk are that the state of inebriation does tend to bring out the true essence of your subconscious thoughts, stripped off facades you put in front of strangers.

Mid-January of 2023, my go-to statement/thought when being drunk was “I am not happy”. I am surprised none of my friends stopped hanging out with me after that, honestly; who wants to be around a 6-drink Amy?

Mid-December of 2023, it finally changed to “I am happy”. It took a year but I call it a step in the right…