![]() ![]() It’s the hardest thing in the world to do sometimes but it’s also the only thing that will save you. How do you keep from drowning in quicksand once you’re stuck in it? The same is true for emotional quicksand, but thankfully the solution is the same too. Indiana Jones in quicksand… At least my quicksand doesn’t also have snakes in it? But as we probably all know from Indiana Jones and The Princess Bride and so on, the brilliant and horrible thing about quicksand is the more you struggle, the faster you sink. ![]() It’s a totally expected response to panic and thrash about trying to escape. The deeper you sink in quicksand, the worse it gets, the more you feel as though you’re being crushed. The thoughts and feelings just get worse and worse and there are more and more of them and you feel stucker and stucker. It might start with a feeling of loneliness brought on by isolation, or frustration and anger at an injustice you heard about or experienced or are experiencing, or sadness and confusion at being ignored/ghosted by a person you had high hopes about, or panic and fear brought on by something you read or saw while “doomscrolling.” There are so many ways you can step in emotional quicksand, but once you’ve dipped a toe in it, the sand starts to take your whole foot, then the other foot, then your calves and your knees and your legs and before you know it, your waist is all the way stuck. I heard the expression “emotional quicksand” on the radio last night – right alongside another resonating term “doomscrolling” – and realized even as I learned about its existence that I was already in it and sinking fast. You’ve probably been stuck in quicksand before, even if you didn’t realize that’s what it was. ![]()
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