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Answering Your Anxiety Questions! Part 1

Anxiety Rx

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What's the Root Cause of Health Anxiety?

The alarm started when you were a child, typically, not always, but typically. This alarm has been missed by psychiatrists, psychologists as a way of just trying to deal with the thoughts instead of the true underlying cause because they didn't know what the underlying cause is. The part of your brain that's actually rational has been shut off by this survival physiology by this alarm. So you can't reason your way out of this. It's like trying to do an algebra equation when there's a knife to your throat.

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