CBT helps people uncover their anxiety-causing beliefs. These beliefs contain the often unconscious reasons why you think you should be anxious about something. CBT
1Research shows that we (humans) use anxiety–often unconsciously–to benefit or protect ourselves in some way. For example, you may use anxiety to motivate yourself
An anxiety trigger is something, that when encountered, you experience a physical anxiety/fight-or-flight response. Triggers can be anything. Example triggers: physical and non-physical objects