Then, you deconstruct it into smaller increments - into hypothetically manageable problems - and then you expose yourself, gradually, to the thing that you're afraid of.
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What do you do if you're afraid and, to some degree, anxious? You lay out what you're anxious about in detail. Ask yourself, "What it is that I'm afraid of that might happen?".pic.twitter.com/DGIo2krKZ2
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The effect of this is not that you become less afraid. What happens instead? You become braver. And that's not the same thing.
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To decide to move forward courageously into the land of the unknown. That's one of the secrets to a good life, I would say.
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Yes, it's important to constantly check whether you're alive lol!
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The more you address the underlying emotion the better you are managing it. E.g if you're feeling nervous during a conversation just spell it out say that you are nervous and immediately the feeling goes away
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I have health anxiety and terrible fear of serious illness. But I had cancer, and I have had 5 surgeries in my life of one sort or another. I was statistically very very unlikely to need 4/5 of them. I can't find ANY strategy to get the better of it.
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Guten Tag, please find the unroll here: What do you do if you're afraid and, to some degree, anxious? You lay… https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1423299003899420682.html … Talk to you soon.
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Problem soved .5-htp
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