Anxiety is your brain worrying what COULD happen.
When you run away, your brain learns that situation is definitely to be feared, and that running away helps. You build a worse pattern.
Facing your fear shows your brain what ACTUALLY happens. That diminishes your anxiety.
When you run away, your brain learns that situation is definitely to be feared, and that running away helps. You build a worse pattern.
Facing your fear shows your brain what ACTUALLY happens. That diminishes your anxiety.
There are obviously limits to this.
If your anxiety is about a genuinely dangerous situation, use common sense.
And make sure you’re healthy enough to do this. Ptsd in particular makes this difficult due to the rapid shift in the limbic system.
This may be a goal to work up to
If your anxiety is about a genuinely dangerous situation, use common sense.
And make sure you’re healthy enough to do this. Ptsd in particular makes this difficult due to the rapid shift in the limbic system.
This may be a goal to work up to
But your brain is a learning computer. It does what it can with the data you feed it.
If your brain is irrationally afraid of yellow socks, it could be that enough encounters will yellow socks will make the fear response extinct.
Or fear of riding the bus. Or of confrontation.
If your brain is irrationally afraid of yellow socks, it could be that enough encounters will yellow socks will make the fear response extinct.
Or fear of riding the bus. Or of confrontation.
What data are you feeding your brain?
What data are you preventing your data from acquiring?
Is your standard anxiety response keeping your brain afraid?
What data are you preventing your data from acquiring?
Is your standard anxiety response keeping your brain afraid?
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