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Your anxiety may not be about the future

Your anxiety may not be about the future

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Summary

In this episode, I think about the possibility that anxiety is not always about the future.

This essay started with my own experience of overthinking, therapy, stuttering, and the feeling that I was preparing for something bad before it happened. But the deeper question became more uncomfortable: what if anxiety is not predicting reality, but rehearsing defeat?

It is about old fear, control, memory, and the strange way the mind can treat past pain as if it is a future warning.

This is a personal essay, not advice, therapy, or a scientific explanation.

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