Overwhelming Anxiety: Why the Anxious Mind Replays the Past
Susannah Amezquita
Anxiety is multifaceted, complex, and yes, a relentless machine. If you live with overwhelming anxiety, you know that it often feels more powerful than you. Not only does it give you racing thoughts, tight muscles, and the need for hypervigilance, but it is also more annoying than the worst playground bully. Anxiety, the aggressive historian that it is, has the exhausting superpower of dragging you back in time. Overwhelming anxiety feels like it is forcing you to sit in a theater of your own making and watch replays of your most painful and embarrassing moments. Why does overwhelming anxiety dwell in the past? Someone without anxiety might look to the...
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