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

I had relied on relentless worrying and compulsive thinking as a coping strategy. When a psychedelic substance took away my ability to think, I was left face to face with the pain I had spent decades avoiding.

Much of relieving anxious thoughts and worry is making the unconscious conscious.

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.

you can see having anxiety is not a flaw but a sign of your resilience under adversity.

The trouble starts when, instead of seeing our worries as merely intrusive thoughts, we unconsciously accept them as true.

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

We avoid places, people, and things that may create an undesirable reaction in us.

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

The mind notes the alarm is painful and draws the conclusion it is dangerous. The mind makes thoughts in the form of worries or projections that are consistent with that perceived danger. These thoughts are worries.