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CBT helps people uncover their anxiety-causing beliefs—the reasons why you think you should be anxious about something—so they can evaluate them and change them but knowing or “using” CBT isn’t enough. You or your mental health supporter(s) must be skilled…
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How to get what you want
Your views of how to get what you want may uknowningly be based on what you learned as a child or young adult. This puts you at risk of having views and understandings that aren’t optimal for your current age…
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The Anxiety Paradox – How We (humans) Unknowingly Make Ourselves Anxious
Research shows that humans use anxiety–often unconsciously–to benefit or protect themselves in some way. For example, you may use anxiety to motivate yourself to do something or prove that you don’t like something. In some cases, what you decide to…
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What is a belief?
Definition: Something that is accepted, considered to be true, or held as an opinion. Merriam-Webster Dictionary For example, believing the world is flat means a person thinks that’s true. To disagree with that assertion is to say you don’t think…
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What is an anxiety trigger?
A trigger = something, that when encountered, we experience a physical anxiety/fight-or-flight response. Triggers can be anything. Example triggers: physical and non-physical objects like thoughts, people, aspects of yourself, emotions, events, memories, words, behaviors, actions, and impulses. We can be…
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What is the unconscious?
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate. — Carl Jung Aspects of ourselves — like ways of thinking — that exist, but we’re unaware of. For example, someone can have…
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How to stop caring what people think
Several sources say, “Don’t care what people think” but that can be easier said than done. This can be especially difficult when the opinion comes from someone with authority or someone who has attributes that you or society deems “successful,”…
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