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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

If you have come across Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and found the terminology a little puzzling; defusion, acceptance, the observing self; you are not alone. ACT uses some language that sounds abstract at first but points to something surprisingly practical. One of its core concepts, cognitive defusion, is worth understanding in plain terms; because once it clicks, it can genuinely change how you relate to your own mind. What is cognitive fusion? To understand def