To Heal Anxiety, Stop Thinking of It as a Disease

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To Heal Anxiety, Stop Thinking of It as a Disease
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'Anxiety isn’t the problem. The problem lies in our beliefs that set us up for failure,' explains tracyadennis

So treating anxiety as a disease sets us up to do all the wrong things when it comes to managing anxiety, and creates huge opportunity costs when it comes to leveraging anxiety to our benefit.Anxiety and anxiety disorders are not the same thing. Until we make that distinction, I can see why you might feel that I’m going too far in these ideas.

Here’s the difference between anxiety and an anxiety disorder: We can go through periods of intense, daily anxieties and still not be diagnosed with an anxiety disorder. A disorder is only diagnosed when our ways of coping with anxiety—whether with worries, avoidance, panic, withdrawal, or obsessiveness—are out of proportion and disrupt our ability to function in our professional and personal lives.

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