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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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The cost of avoiding 10What worry does 7Breaking the worry loop 6Facing it a step at a time 5Treatment and medication 5Obsessions and compulsions 4Being seen and judged 3Panic and the body 1
How long you have
A minute 15Five minutes 20Twenty minutes 5Longer 1
Approach
CBT 34Medical and treatment 6Narrative 1
When · Under stress
Any ordinary day 148Under stress 41In a change 14Coming and going 7After a row 4When apart 1

When you help someone rethink a frightening thought, go slowly and stay honest. A cheerful line swapped in for a scared one tends to get refused, and fairly so.

The aim is not a brighter thought but a truer one that is also bearable. Something in the shape of "this is going to feel horrible and I can get…

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