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S3 Ep 5: Why Anxiety is Good For You (Even Though It Feels Bad)

Raising Good Humans

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You See Hit the Nail on the Head

The idea that it's either a disease or you're healthy would mean that there's an absence of something like anxiety. This mindset actually blocks good things like therapy and wellness practices from giving us the best, the most benefit. So if we have mindsets about anxiety that are, as you say, that it's a disease, what do you do with the disease? You eradicate it. Yes. If it's a character flaw, which is another dominant mindset about anxiety in particular, but really a lot of mental health struggles,. What do you do? You ignore it and you pull yourself up by your own bootstraps. And all of these solutions that are primed by the mindset are avoidance

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