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Is It Depression or Anxiety, or Just Sadness and Worry? How to Tell the Difference
Everyone feels sad sometimes. Everyone worries. These are not signs that something is wrong with you; they are signs that you are alive and paying attention. Sadness is a natural response to loss, disappointment, and difficulty. Worry is the mind's attempt to anticipate and prepare for things that matter. Both are part of a full human life, and neither requires treatment on its own. But depression and anxiety are different. They are not simply more intense versions of sadness
Sep 275 min read


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
Aug 263 min read


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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