Article on anxiety

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Found it helpful"Truth is, anxiety is not an emotion. It's a particularly visceral form of emotional resistance. Even though anxiety itself can seem intolerable, our primitive brains deem it less threatening than the core

emotion that triggers it in the first place.Once we're in the grip of anxiety, there's no chance we'll have to experience that core emotion directly. From the point of view of the primitive brain, mission

accomplished."Article

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and another essentially stating that anxiety is the mental resistance to an emotion or feeling we're scared of having, yet we focus on the event Emotional Connection >> Found it helpful> > "Truth is, anxiety is not an emotion. It's a particularly visceral form> of emotional resistance. Even though anxiety itself can seem > intolerable, our primitive brains deem it less threatening than the core> emotion that triggers it in the first place.> Once we're in the grip of anxiety, there's no chance we'll have to> experience that core emotion directly. From the point of view of the> primitive brain, mission accomplished."> > Article > <http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/emotional-connection/201107/the-tru\> th-about-anxiety-0>>