You have to address the PROCESS of anxiety, rather than the content. Content = on a superficial...

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You have to address the PROCESS of anxiety, rather than the content.

Content = on a superficial level what it is that you are anxious or worried about. Relationship, health, future, etc. We like to hang out here and engage in safety behaviors like reassurance seeking and avoidance and ruminating. No bueno. 🛑 🛑Distraction from the real work we have to do. Gives credibility to the fact that there is a problem in the first place.

Process = how you are justifying or holding positive beliefs about worry, how you are ruminating instead of legitimate problem solving, how you are resisting the inevitable need to tolerate some level of uncertainty in life, how you are perseverating before you can move onto the next thing you need to do, how you are in past or future instead or present.

We get too stuck on the content and we get pulled into generic strategies like cognitive restructuring and coping skills and thought challenging, which may help temporarily but..

If you don’t address the process, won’t you just have a new content area? 🥲

Kind of like how OCD plays whack a mole…

Kind of like how anxiety just loooves to move from thing to thing.

Focus less on the content (never actually was the problem anyway) and more on the process and you’ll address it all at the root and kick that whack a mole where it hurts.

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