The Anxiety Trap: Why Trying to Control It Can Make It Worse | Drew Linsalata
What if everything you're doing to control your anxiety is actually keeping you stuck in it?
When anxiety shows up, the natural response is to make it stop. We avoid the situation. Check our symptoms. Search for reassurance. Distract ourselves. Try to calm down. And if we're good at solving problems, we may work even harder to figure out exactly why we feel this way.
But therapist and anxiety specialist Drew Linslata says anxiety can be strangely backwards.
Sometimes the harder you fight it, the more important and dangerous you teach your brain that feeling is.
In this episode of the Fit Over…
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