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Ep. 166: Dr. Joel Minden — 1. How to Deal More Effectively with Anxious Thoughts

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What Are Anxiety Fictions?

An anxious fiction is a bias in thinking. We overestimate risk or threat and underestimate our ability to cope. Anxious fictions include likelihood that something's going to happen, how bad the thing's going to be if it does happen, and how able you are to cope with it, if it does. Mm-hmm.

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