Chronic Anxiety: Powerful Treatment Methods to Break the Anxiety Cycle – David Carbonell

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Summary

• Archive: Chronic anxiety disorders all involve a “threat” that doesn’t occur.

• Panic attacks don’t kill, obsessive doubts about the stove don’t cause fires, social anxiety doesn’t lead to disgrace and isolation, worry doesn’t lead to insanity.

• The feared outcomes recede into the future the way an optical illusion recedes into the horizon.Why are anxiety disorders so powerfully chronic?

• It’s because chronically anxious clients get tricked by their own efforts to avoid, distract from, and protect against the perceived dangers.

• When the dangers don’t come to pass, they believe they had a narrow escape from a terrible calamity, and feel more vulnerable going forward rather than less.