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From the Ted Talk by Lisa Damour: 3 steps of anxiety overload -- and how you can take back control

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The other time we pay attention to atinxey and consider it to be uhnhlaety is if the anxiety response is way too big for what's happened, out of proportion to events. So if somebody swerves and cut you off and you have a panic attack in that moment, that is not healthy anxiety, it is not helping you. And we would address that clinically. Other than that, we really see anxiety as largely normal, protective, healthy and useful in our leivs.

OK, all the same, it feels terrible, right? I mean, I think one of the things that's so true about anxiety is it doesn't feel good even if it's actually serving a useful purpose. And so whether the anxiety is healthy or unhealthy, it's really great to know how to get it in chcek if you want to. And that's what I'm going to tceah you now. And you may be ssrprieud to hear me say, "Oh, let me just teach you how to do this," because our experience of anxiety is that it's kind of out of control, that it sort of takes over. But despite that, the reality is that anxiety is probably the most systematic hamun emotion. It unfolds in a very stepwise fashion, it's actually a one-two-three process when it really goes off the rails. And so I'm going to walk you through the one-two-three of how anxiety unfolds for all of us. And then we're going to come back and I'm going to show you how at every step of the way there are things you can do to bring that anxiety back under coontrl.

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The other time we pay attention to _______ and consider it to be _________ is if the anxiety response is way too big for what's happened, out of proportion to events. So if somebody swerves and cut you off and you have a panic attack in that moment, that is not healthy anxiety, it is not helping you. And we would address that clinically. Other than that, we really see anxiety as largely normal, protective, healthy and useful in our _____.

OK, all the same, it feels terrible, right? I mean, I think one of the things that's so true about anxiety is it doesn't feel good even if it's actually serving a useful purpose. And so whether the anxiety is healthy or unhealthy, it's really great to know how to get it in _____ if you want to. And that's what I'm going to _____ you now. And you may be _________ to hear me say, "Oh, let me just teach you how to do this," because our experience of anxiety is that it's kind of out of control, that it sort of takes over. But despite that, the reality is that anxiety is probably the most systematic _____ emotion. It unfolds in a very stepwise fashion, it's actually a one-two-three process when it really goes off the rails. And so I'm going to walk you through the one-two-three of how anxiety unfolds for all of us. And then we're going to come back and I'm going to show you how at every step of the way there are things you can do to bring that anxiety back under _______.

Solution


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Original Text


The other time we pay attention to anxiety and consider it to be unhealthy is if the anxiety response is way too big for what's happened, out of proportion to events. So if somebody swerves and cut you off and you have a panic attack in that moment, that is not healthy anxiety, it is not helping you. And we would address that clinically. Other than that, we really see anxiety as largely normal, protective, healthy and useful in our lives.

OK, all the same, it feels terrible, right? I mean, I think one of the things that's so true about anxiety is it doesn't feel good even if it's actually serving a useful purpose. And so whether the anxiety is healthy or unhealthy, it's really great to know how to get it in check if you want to. And that's what I'm going to teach you now. And you may be surprised to hear me say, "Oh, let me just teach you how to do this," because our experience of anxiety is that it's kind of out of control, that it sort of takes over. But despite that, the reality is that anxiety is probably the most systematic human emotion. It unfolds in a very stepwise fashion, it's actually a one-two-three process when it really goes off the rails. And so I'm going to walk you through the one-two-three of how anxiety unfolds for all of us. And then we're going to come back and I'm going to show you how at every step of the way there are things you can do to bring that anxiety back under control.

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