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Putting off doing things that make you anxious leads to worsened anxiety.

Labeling the experience of anxiety as traumatic makes it harder to cope.

Focusing on avoiding anxiety only makes you feel more scared and prevents self-confidence.

Focusing on the past reasons you became anxious is not the same as learning how to cope with anxiety.

You can find a lot of information about how to decrease your anxiety, but think about the things you accidentally do that guarantee your anxiety will worsen. I see my patients make consistent mistakes. Once you recognize them, you cannot unsee them.

Focus on feeling peaceful instead of becoming competent in managing anxiety and panic anyplace, anywhere. Anxiety fools everyone into believing they are in terrible emotional or situational danger, even though they are not. No one can be in perfect control over........

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