Anxiety Rx: A New Prescription for Anxiety Relief from the Doctor Who Created It

2. There are anxious thoughts created by the mind. The mind is a meaning-making, make-sense machine.

The reason you became anxious is that once upon a time you left yourself, often to look after a parent or it was just too unbearable to be in your body.

Anxiety is a thinking process of the mind.

We feel we need to minimize uncertainty at all costs. The other name for minimizing uncertainty is control.

The more unstable the environment in which you grew up, the more your unconscious will take over and do whatever it has to do to ensure your survival.

Chronic worry is a maladaptive coping strategy, not a disease.

unfolds, the pain you feel is not coming from the anxious thoughts of your mind but from a sense of alarm stored in your body.

when we are alarmed, we are likely to believe everything we think—and that is disastrous to our mental and physical health.

Even though we may be safe in the moment, the ego needs you to be on the constant lookout for danger. Allowing you to feel safe is not in the ego’s best interest, even though it is in your best interest.