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I want to ask you an important question. And that is: Why are you stuck? What is it about your experience with abnormal anxiety that's made it difficult to overcome? I know that for me it was the sense that anxiety symptoms would somehow hurt me, either physically or mentally. I had a hard time convincing myself that anxiety wasn't dangerous. But, in time, I learned how to defeat this pattern. So I wrote about it. My new eBook, The Big Idea, deals with this important problem. The problem I'm talking about is resistance. Resistance to

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My Appearance on the Happy Hour Radio Show

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I recently had the privilege of appearing on the Happy Hour Radio Show. I joined Anxiety Gal and her co-host Holly (pictured left) to talk about my past anxiety problems, what I did to get better, and about my work at Anxiety Guru. At one point during the segment, Holly put me on the spot and asked me to explain abnormal anxiety in just a few minutes, and I'm glad she did. It gave me a chance to give a spontaneous and honest answer to a question that I've wrestled with for years. I usually don't have a chance to get introspective about

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How I Got Anxiety to Leave Me Alone at Night

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Two things ran through my mind when I used to get anxious panicked: I'm going to die and It's just anxiety. Especially at night. It's a dual consciousness that you've probably experienced too. That head game tends to happen over and over again. Even if you tell yourself, everyday, that you're not going to let anxiety do that to you. That's why I was surprised when I stopped doing it. But I'll be honest with you, I didn't do it consciously. Actually, it happened on accident. How could that be? Well. Every now and then I used to wake

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It’s About You

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This site stopped being about me a long time ago. That's how I like it. It's always been far more important to me to reach out to you and share what I know. The hope has always been to write something or produce a podcast that spoke to you on some basic, but relevent level. But all good intentions aside, sometimes I guess as to what you want. Honestly, I don't know what that is. I've been in your shoes, so I have some idea. I know that you want to know about chest pain, or some other anxiety symptom. I know that you want to get 

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How to Take Charge Of Your Anxiety Symptoms

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Every week I get emails from readers that want to know more about their anxiety symptoms. They want this information because they're terrified. They're convinced that anxiety is going to kill them. I reckon that you can relate to this feeling too. When I get these emails I feel bad because I know they don't need to feel that way. I try to help, but I'm not sure that I'm always successful in my attempts to ease their fears. So, I'd like to try one more time in this post. It's important to get a handle on your anxiety symptoms

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Shocking Truth About Curing Abnormal Anxiety

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I don't know what you've been told about curing abnormal anxiety. But whatever it is, it's only half-true. Because of all the countless ways to cure abnormal anxiety, not one will help everyone to the same degree. Long story short. There's no easy answers except to say that you need knowledge to fix bad nerves - very specific knowledge (Please see the archives to get an idea). But that's not all. You need more. It also takes new ways of understanding what you already know. When I used to read something that made sense about

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How to be Happy

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Whenever I write something I think about my readers, people like you, and I wonder: What can I say that will help with the ugliness of anxiety? In my own,  simple way, I try to highlight the positive. I do that because I know that when you're anxious it's so easy to do the opposite. It's easier to despair and wrap yourself in the bitter embrace of fear than it is to be optimistic. My critics  lament that I'm too upbeat, but then again, that's why they'll probably stay anxious for the rest of their lives. Negativity has a way of

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Panic Attacks in School

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Today's guest post is brought to you by Marina Salsbury. She planned to be a teacher since high school, but found her way instead into online writing after college.  She writes around the web about everything from education to exercise. Most college students can expect to deal with some stress and anxiety during their academic careers. Full-time students face heavy workloads from their classes, hours of studying most nights, and the pressure to earn good grades as they work towards their degrees. None of this is anything new,

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How to Give Paul Criticism

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I love to help people. In fact, this entire blog represents my sincere compassion for people who live with abnormal anxiety. I write and create podcasts here because I care. I don't do it for money or recognition. I do it because I want to help you. Now imagine how I feel when I get criticism delivered in a rude or smug manner. As if someone who's devoted hundreds of hours of his own time to help people for free deserves that. It's uncalled-for. The Provocation I bring all this up because in the last week I've received two

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