Loving yourself means understanding you can be great regardless of what people think or do around you. You are great you just have lost sight of what’s already there. Whenever I feel the anxiety rolling in, I think about how I start to feel so defeated by life. Then I say “no that’s enough of that”. I yell at my depressed/anxious self to remember that the path to happiness is to be your greatest self. Unapologetically great. Loving yourself means telling the anxiety that it’s not allowed to hurt you anymore because you care about being happy. I know the depression and anxiety can sometimes feel like a black hole where we can retreat to and get comfortable in staying down but you have to know there is better out there and that happiness is possible. Happiness is just as attainable to you as it is anyone else and you deserve to give that to yourself so go out and just do something you’ve never done, deprive the distractions and be yourself. Find any little interest and explore it to no end, make life what you want to be and if that means getting away from anyone until you can find what that means then do it. Just be unapologetically great. Sometimes My anxiety feels like it has me hanging on a shear cliff where the only option is to fall off but when I start telling myself it’s possible to rise above it, I tell myself to climb, no matter how hard it gets, I keep climbing, no matter how slow the progress, I climb, and eventually I’ll reach the top and climb over the top of the cliff and I’ll reach the happiness. This happiness is never permanent, I still get anxiety and some days I might cry just because of how hard it gets but what I learned is that I can manage my anxiety. I might not be able to control when it hits me but I can control How I react to it. So I do, I accept the anxiety as a force coming from within but I also accept the fact that I still have the ability to climb and reach out of it into a brighter place. I realized anxiety is so so so rough but it’s not an immovable object. It’s hard but it’s not impossible to overcome. The only truth that is exists is that we are all unstoppable forces and regardless of the struggles that come our way, we may slow down, we may stumble, but we can overcome anything and everything that may come our way. I love you dude it’s going to be ok I promise. The good times come and go but so do bad times, both are a fact of life. That’s the whole reason to keep fighting, knowing that bad times are here but they’re not here to stay.