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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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Obsessions and compulsions A minute Under stress Clear all

Theme · Obsessions and compulsions

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

How long you have · A minute

A minute 1 Five minutes 3

When · Under stress

Any ordinary day 2 Under stress 1

About this theme

Obsessive thoughts and compulsions respond well to a specific kind of therapy. What is here is for understanding them, not for treating them by yourself.

Try not to talk the worry through in detail, even with someone kind. Going over the specifics feels like sorting it out, and it is closer to watering it.

Mental review and asking for reassurance are the same move in different clothes. Both give a short drop in distress and a stronger pull next time.…

A minuteObsessions and compulsionsCBTQur’an 13:28