Freedom of speech relies on the responsible use of freedom of thought. Once you can think with empathy, your words will grow wings.
Anxiety thoughts are akin to driving around the block over and over, faster and faster. It's pointless. Stop. Let your thoughts be as a car on a good road, taking the hills and valleys just the same, heading into the far horizon your passions call you toward. You owe it to yourself to take control of the wheel.
Become a dynamic thinker, see the relationships between concepts rather than getting tied into binary thinking.
Creativity is as foundational to good thinking as empathy, logic and self control; nurture your artistic passions.
The basic bitch is a static thinker rather than dynamic. Static is thinking things are either a "0" or a "1" - on or off. Dynamic is seeing the relationships between different concepts, that many are inversely proportional, that as one increases the other decreases as a response. For example, as we increase cooperation we decrease competition or, as we increase sustainability we decrease consumerism. We have learned to accept that positive and stable changes evolve, they change at a community level over time - as the percentage of positive behaviour increases the negative behaviour decreases.
Thinking is best achieved when we have good self esteem, empathy for others, creativity, and a passion for solving the problem.