I agree with the excellent metaphor with anxiety/sugar for sure, I know exactly what you mean. It's just the automatic reaction. My brain and gut tells me, "if I can seek confirmation it's probably fine, that will help". I can't think of many situations though that has actually been the ca...

Hi Heather, That's some great advice, thanks, and I agree with your later points regarding approaching the anxiety and mentioning the reassurance seeking, that is a problem and only seems to temporarily soften the worry before it re-surfaces again. I realise the worry is completely irrational, yet t...

I'm a guy in his 20's and can get pretty hung up on worries and would say I suffer from anxiety quite heavily between long periods of absolute calm when things are normal! Usually an incident sparks a long period of worry for me that I just have to power through until it subsides. Unfortunately, I s...