“You feel like you’re going to die, but you won’t. This is your brain playing games with you. You decide what happens next.” She’s one in a million, with a highly trained brain at her beck and call. If the rest of us found it easy when anxiety reared its ugly head just to tell ourselves to stop being anxious, I would happily be in another line of work. That’s not how our brains work, especially when stress and anxiety are shutting down the very parts that are supposed to be reasoning us through a tough spell. If you don’t believe me (or the data), try this: the next time you’re anxious, just
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