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A Better Way to Solve Problems & Why Anxiety is a Good Thing

Something You Should Know

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Is Anxiety a Disease?

Anxiety is trully simultaneously good and bad. When we think of anxiety as a disease, it causes us to do more unhelpful things when working with the condition. We are setting ourselves up by thinking of anxiety because it does feel bad. But it feels bad for a reason, because it is activating us to achieve things in our life. And suppression and avoidance are literally recipes for making anxiety worse. It's a opportunity cost in terms of building skills to work through anxiety. So we treat it like a disease, like cancer, to eradicate. But that's impossible - an anxiety free life is impossible, but a cancer free life might be possible.

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