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Anxiety and specific fears
Why anxiety can feel causeless, why relief may be temporary, how to test a changed response, and why fear can spread to similar situations.
- 01The anxiety background · part 1Why anxiety can feel as though it has no causeAnxiety may feel causeless because several different lines have merged into one background noise. This article separates them.8 min readRead →
- 02The anxiety background · part 2Why anxiety can remain after you solve the main problemSolving the loudest problem can bring relief without changing everything that was producing the anxious background.7 min readRead →
- 03The anxiety background · part 3How to tell whether an anxiety response has actually changedManaging a reaction is a skill. A changed response is tested by returning to the same signal and finding that the old fear no longer starts.7 min readRead →
- 04Anxiety and specific fearsWhy one frightening event can make everything similar feel dangerousA response may spread from one frightening event to a much wider category, even when the conscious similarities appear weak.7 min readRead →
- 05Anxiety and specific fearsWhen anxiety is useful—and when it is no longer solving anythingAnxiety is useful while it helps you detect a risk and act. After a workable plan exists, continuing to suffer does not improve the plan.6 min readRead →
- 06Anxiety and specific fearsHow to stop worrying without pretending that nothing mattersThe aim is not to suppress every warning. It is to stop rehearsing the same automatic anxiety after it has ceased to help.6 min readRead →
Articles explain the mechanism. The method is for changing the reaction.
If you recognise your situation, you can compare the available ways of working with it.