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Anxiety
10 min read
Also known as: anxiety disorder · phobia · panic attack · fear · anxiety states · constriction · anxiety · chronic anxiety · anxious feeling · panic · anxiety episode · inner restlessness
Your Body Is Speaking
Your heart races. Your hands go damp. Your stomach tightens, your chest closes, your breath grows shallow. Everything inside you is screaming: danger. But when you look around, there is none. No predator, no precipice, no real threat. Just you — and a body behaving as though your survival is at stake.
Anxiety is one of the oldest sensations a human being knows. In its acute form it saves lives — it makes you fast, alert, capable of action. But the anxiety we are talking about here is different. It has taken on a life of its own. It comes without any recognizable cause. It lingers long after the situation has passed. It colours your everyday life, your decisions, your entire sense of being.
The question is not: What frightens you? The question is: What inside you has decided that life itself is a threat — and why?
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