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Anxiety really is a horrible mental affliction that affects more people than you can imagine. In a given year, 40 million Americans, that’s 18% of us are living with a bona fide anxiety disorder. That doesn’t include people who suffer from a sub-clinical level of anxiety. Worse yet, only 43% of those people even seek treatment. That means more than half of people with an anxiety disorder, which can be anything from a phobia to OCD to generalized anxiety, are coping on their own. Are you one of them? If so, you may be handling it all wrong, as the article below suggests. Instinctive built-in coping mechanisms, like avoidance of a trigger, only make symptoms worse!
Please, if you are reading this and you suffer from anxiety or know someone who does, read the article below, share, and seek some help, even if it’s self-guided. Therapy does not work for everyone, but it does work for many. If you feel strongly this isn’t for you, there ARE ways to alleviate your suffering:
