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How Anxiety Can Make Small Decisions Feel Emotionally Exhausting
You need to reply to an email. It is a simple email; a question about scheduling, or a social invitation, or something equally low-stakes. And yet you have been putting it off for three days, turning it over in your mind, drafting responses and deleting them, feeling a low hum of dread every time you think about it. Or you are standing in a grocery store, looking at two nearly identical options, and you cannot make yourself choose. Not because it matters; but because somethin
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Why Anxiety Lies to You: Understanding the Stories Your Brain Tells
Anxiety is remarkably convincing. When it tells you that something terrible is about to happen, it does not present that as a theory; it presents it as fact. When it insists that people are judging you, or that you will not be able to handle what is coming, or that the worst-case scenario is the most likely one, it does so with a certainty that can be very hard to argue with. This is not a character flaw. It is how anxiety works. And understanding why it does this is often th
Jul 163 min read
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