A new home decoration show starts on the Irish television channel this evening. The popularity of shows like this at the moment – or ones which look at houses abroad or down the country – and which start when people are a bit down after the Summer holidays, can fuel the anxious, comparing mind. Even how you decorate your home becomes a sign of how well you are doing, or another way to feel that you do not match up:
The need to be normal is the predominant anxiety disorder
in modern life.
Thomas Moore, Original Self
Mindfulbalance 
Wow! I didn’t know this. I have never been ‘normal.’ I can remember wanting to be normal and the anxiety that went along. I gradually grew into my not normal state and this is much easier than wanting things to be different.