What if anxiety is not really about the future?
Maybe anxiety is not predicting what will happen. Maybe it is replaying what already hurt.
Anxiety
Anxiety as rehearsal, signal, memory, and weather inside a life that wants certainty.
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AnxietyAnxiety was not preparing me for reality. It was rehearsing defeat.
AnxietyReality is much wider than what anxiety can draw in the first few seconds.
AnxietyA defeat you rehearse in advance still feels like defeat.
AnxietyThis is not the future. This is an expectation.