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Anxiety And Beliefs

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Beliefs are ideas that you accept to be true and these beliefs have emotions attached to them. A belief that you are in danger will trigger an emotion called fear. The emotion is supposed to alert you to the dangerous event that you can then react to releasing the fear when the danger has passed. This is the natural process and flow of the emotions and how they work.

Within anxiety you are have the same process going on, an association of beliefs and responding emotions however within anxiety the 'danger' tends to be a response to 'past experiences, or.perceived experiences' rather than real life ones. Even within the real life experience the emotions within anxiety are distorted to include more fear than appropriate.

An example of which

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