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333. Greatest Hits: Ghost Patterns - Anxiety, Fixation & Survival

UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone

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Challenging Hyper-Vigilance and Reassessing Threats

Slowing down and being curious helped to realize that hyper-vigilance does not indicate lack of progress, self-worth issues, or threat to survival. It is simply a habitual subconscious pattern of scanning for threats and focusing on neutralizing them. This can lead to feeling overwhelmed and stuck, but by understanding that it is a mistaken survival threat diagnosis, it becomes possible to redirect thoughts away from this perceived danger.

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