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Worry and anxiety

Anxiety is not a character flaw and it is not weak faith. It is a body doing what it was built to do, at a moment when it is not needed. The practices here work on the loop itself: what worry promises and never delivers, what avoiding costs you, and how to let the body come down.

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Theme · Panic and the body

Treatment and medication 13 The cost of avoiding 5 Being seen and judged 5 What worry does 3 Facing it a step at a time 2 Obsessions and compulsions 2 Breaking the worry loop 1 Panic and the body 1

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Any ordinary day 1 Under stress 1

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