How to Break Free From Chronic Anxiety - Martha Beck - #941

You say anxiety always lies. Always. Why? I say that at the end of the book. Spoiler alert, sorry about that.

Boom! Come at me with the biggest. No, here's the thing. We have brains that are very prone to anxiety, and we have a culture that magnifies our proneness to anxiety.

But anxiety, unlike fear, which is a very uh a response, a visceral response to a danger that is present in the physical moment. There's a a surge of adrenaline, a surge of activity, and then boom, it's gone. Anxiety comes from uh the way we perseverate and tell stories to ourselves in our heads about the things that may or may not happen. As Mark Twain said, I'm an old man and I have lived through many troubles, but most of them never happened.

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