{"id":500,"date":"2022-12-21T00:35:24","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T00:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/overcomingmountains.com\/?p=500"},"modified":"2025-06-10T21:58:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T20:58:12","slug":"dont-judge-a-book-by-its-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/overcomingmountains.com\/blog\/?p=500","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Judge a Book by its Cover"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-e710e74396fd25e58193559b82de4b28 wp-block-paragraph\">I recently had a conversation in passing while at Pilates where one of the ladies made the comment \u201cWhat problems, you don\u2019t have any problems\u201d. It wasn\u2019t said maliciously at all. In fact it was said in admiration. But it got me thinking how we really don\u2019t know what a person has to deal with on the daily and that we all have our own mountains that we are climbing day by day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-medium\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/overcomingmountainscom.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/dec7f52c-daee-4487-9cfc-05b3b650da6a.jpeg?w=201\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-509\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>A screen shot from Apple Health showing HR range of 64-164BPM<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-8a2e59055497f58ee8b8266d06415ec8 wp-block-paragraph\">I went to see Strictly Ballroom The Musical with Amani in Guildford. My Apple Watch is set to give me a notification when my heart rate goes above 100BPM while I seem inactive for 10 minutes. As you can see in the photo I had 10 notifications between 18:00 and 22:00. This is an indication of how much anxiety I was experiencing being out at a theatre in crowds. But I did it because if I stop going to events like this I would stop living life, become isolated and sink into a deep and dark depression. Having been in a really dark place once before I am adamant that I will not get to that point again and so I push through<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-281aab40db20f6c64b6f662cef42d59f wp-block-paragraph\">Your own mountain may appear as a mole hill if you compare it to others but that only leads to one thing and that is heightened anxiety and stress when you start to believe you aren\u2019t doing so well compared to others. We are all in different stages of life\u2019s journey, and I believe that we are all on this earth for a purpose so focus on the stage you are in and do the best with what you have in your hand. Your problem may be looking after poorly children and husband stressing you out or it could be dealing with a terminal diagnosis &#8211; whatever it is you can overcome your mountain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-79e199ef228500582c6c48988a90baf8 wp-block-paragraph\">And remember, you have already survived 100% of your bad days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#mentalhealth #youneverknowwhatsgoingoninside #anxiety #socialanxiety<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[14,23],"class_list":["post-500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-mental-health","tag-social-anxiety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/overcomingmountains.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/overcomingmountains.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/overcomingmountains.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/overcomingmountains.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/overcomingmountains.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/overcomingmountains.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1593,"href":"https:\/\/overcomingmountains.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions\/1593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/overcomingmountains.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/overcomingmountains.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/overcomingmountains.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}