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Anxiety Is Avoided Emotion
- Anxiety differs from fear because fear responds to present danger while anxiety signals avoided emotions.
- Hillary Jacobs-Hendel: anxiety occurs when you push down sadness, grief, or anger.
Unfelt Childhood Emotions Accumulate
- Early experiences shape how you handle emotions and can cause a buildup of unfelt feelings.
- Accumulated, unfelt sadness connects to present sadness and produces overwhelming anxiety.
Messages Teach Emotional Avoidance
- Cultural and parental messages teach children that sadness, fear, or anger are bad or weak.
- Those messages make emotional avoidance feel necessary and later cause anxiety.