
An Intro to cognitive psychology Pt 3
The Blindboy Podcast
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Anxiety Is an Unhealthy Emotion
Anxiety as a response to a minor trigger is an unhealthy response. Your thoughts when this trigger presents itself are what determines whether you go into anxiety, the healthy version. You might try and numb that anxiety with external substances like alcohol or drugs. And a safety behaviour could be like not leaving your bedroom, or carrying a water bottle around with yourselv because you believe if you know it tru in a mal adaptive fashion,you won't get an anxiety attack. These are all the themes and behaviours of anxiety.
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