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Jul 7
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5 Mental Mistakes That Keep You Anxious ...

Dennis Simsek
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Podcast description: 

Are you unknowingly sabotaging your anxiety recovery?

In this episode of The Anxiety Guy Podcast, we'll uncover the 5 most common mental mistakes that keep anxiety sufferers stuck in the loop of fear, worry, and panic. These cognitive traps like all or nothing thinking, catastrophizing, and emotional reasoning fuel everything from health anxiety to generalized anxiety disorder and panic attacks.

You’ll learn:

  • Why your brain defaults to fear-based thinking and how to change that

  • How childhood patterns and subconscious beliefs shape your anxious mind

  • Practical tools to challenge each cognitive distortion

  • How to build emotional safety and nervous system regulation

  • A daily approach to rewiring anxious patterns for lasting healing

Whether you're dealing with anxiety symptoms, overthinking, intrusive thoughts, or chronic stress this episode will help you understand the mental habits keeping you stuck and offer a clear, compassionate way forward.

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