Anxiety is not an uncontrollable and incurable mental illness.
Anxiety is one of the most important conscious processes ever developed in the human brain.
Originally it allowed us to imagine a known danger, such as lions, tigers, and bears at a safe distance so we could develop skills and strategies to avoid being harmed.
Today, anxiety is the feeling we get when we imagine or predict, an unwanted outcome in a future event. It feels the same as fear but it is created by very different processes in our brain.
Many new studies present anxiety in ways that leave no doubt that anxiety is a conscious process. Conscious thinking skills can be improved and most anxiety can be prevented.
The first sentence in this study defines anxiety as “a mental state characterized by an intense sense of tension, worry or apprehension, relative to something adverse that might happen in the future.”
The next two studies conclude anxiety has an understandable cause, instead of saying anxiety and stress are natural, normal, unavoidable, and incurable.
Traumatic life events are the biggest cause of anxiety, depression, “while we can’t change a person’s family history or their life experiences, it is possible to help a person change the way they think and to teach them coping strategies that can mitigate and reduce stress levels.”
Common Mental Health Disorders Caused by Adversity, not Chemistry? “Emerging research suggests some of the most common mental disorders including anxiety, depression, and PTSD, might not be disorders at all, rather a response to adversity.”
Or this last study about using a Psychiatric Service Dog to interrupt anxiety and PTSD. This study really supports the interruptible nature of anxiety. Let me see, the dog doesn’t charge by the hour, is available 24/7, and tells me when I need to stop my anxious thinking.
This short course will teach you how to use a process your subconscious uses all the time to interrupt your negative thinking.
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