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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 · Breaking the worry loop
Treatment and medication 13The cost of avoiding 5Being seen and judged 5What worry does 3Facing it a step at a time 2Obsessions and compulsions 2Breaking the worry loop 1Panic and the body 1
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Being told not to worry has never once stopped anybody worrying, including you. If a friend said it to you tomorrow you would carry straight on.

This is worth saying to a parent who feels they are failing at comforting their child. They are not bad at it. The words simply do not do that job…

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