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Understanding Anxiety: Exploring Its Origins and Impact

1 Jul 2024 · 1 min

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Dr. Don Wood explains that anxiety should be understood as a symptom rather than the core problem. He argues the mind produces anxiety with a purpose — typically as a call to action — and suggests anxiety commonly arises from fear of the future, which itself is often rooted in prior experiences of being hurt.

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Anxiety is the symptom, it's not the problem. But if you go in and you talk to your doctor about having anxiety, at no point will they probably ask you, why are you having anxiety? That's what I do. I say, why would your mind be anxious? Your mind doesn't do anything unless it has a purpose and a reason. So the purpose of anxiety is some sort of a call for an action. Your mind is getting you to be anxious because it's concerned about something. Most of the times, anxiety is the result of fear of the future, fear of something coming up. So let's take a look at that. Why would your mind be afraid of the future? Well, the reason it would be afraid of the future is because it has some experience with being hurt.