" am anxious,’ I would say, naming my feeling out loud. ‘I am having the feeling that I am anxious,’ I’d say next, separating the feeling from myself. ‘The feeling that I am anxious is making me feel like I should die,’ attributing the thoughts that flowed from the feelings. Sometimes it worked and I would finish, ‘This is an awful thing that is happening to me, and it is taking me time to deal with it, and that is okay. "

― Bri Lee , Eggshell Skull