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Misguided: How Anxiety Can Distort Love

Anxiety is a physiological and mental force. A set of symptoms ranging bothersome thoughts to endless ruminations and a sense of discomfort…

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Joe Gibson
Apr 11, 2024
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Anxiety is a physiological and mental force. A set of symptoms ranging bothersome thoughts to endless ruminations and a sense of discomfort to a full on panic attack, it is a behaviour driver — meaning it can influence how we show up in our lives. For example, in the face of the discomfort anxiety brings, do we face …

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