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Re:The Powerlessness of Positive Thinking by scotty79 on Wednesday February 19, 2014 @03:08PM (#7265870)
Negative thinking seems to help me the most. If I'm afraid of something in the future I tend to obsess about it. The correct way for me to get free from this is to imagine the worst possible scenario that I can, as it already happened and think what's next. Then it appears to be not that bad. This helps me to calm down and actually take some reasonable actions that always prevented the worst case scenario and lot of not the worst but bad ones.
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Re:The Powerlessness of Positive Thinking by manmal on Wednesday February 19, 2014 @03:10PM (#7265888)
Not the way to go if you have real anxiety. You will start to imagine you can contract Aids when using a public toilet.
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Re:The Powerlessness of Positive Thinking by scotty79 on Friday February 21, 2014 @11:38AM (#7277741)
Still, imagining that I already got it and what should I do now would help me to accept the risk.
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Re:The Powerlessness of Positive Thinking by babyturtle on Wednesday February 19, 2014 @04:52PM (#7266504)
One way to deal with anxiety is to flood your system with it.. habituate to it.. and you will stop caring and harden your shell. We are way to soft these days.
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