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I lean anxious a decent amount of the time, but several years when I was reallllly going through it, I coined a new term - "anxhaustion" - to describe the miserable state of feeling energetically depleted and like a live wire at the same time. I don't wish this state on anyone AND I know that trying to fight it tends to only make it worse.

So, here's my little ditty from the part of me that can't stand this cocktail of stomach-roiling anxiety mixed with dread and exhaustion to the anxhaustion itself. It was kinda fun and cheeky to write :) Lots of love to my anxious and anxhausted folks out there!

You’ve got one foot on the brake And one foot on the gas Your body feels like sludge And yet your mind moves way too fast

It’s like a cloudy film has come between you and the world While a tightness grips your chest you can’t recall what you just heard

Anxhaustion, you really just won’t let me win I’m trying to help but you don’t let me in Anxhaustion I really wish you’d let me be You're making my life such a damn misery

It’s 4am again and panic is your new best friend She calls you by your name and you can’t help but let her in She takes you out to sea in the middle of a storm Now you’re tossed and turned around You don’t know which way to turn

Anxhaustion, I really can’t win when you’re here I just wanna sleep but you won’t let me near Anxhaustion I really wish you’d let me be You're making my life such a damn misery

You know you need to eat but your stomach’s in knots And so your head stays foggy as you try to get to work Your therapist says that “this too shall pass” But all you wanna do is kick some Anxhaustion ass

Anxhaustion, you really just won’t let me win I’m trying to help but you don’t let me in Anxhaustion I really wish you’d let me be You're making my life such a damn misery