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According to Dr T.A. Richards, we can stop thoughts that lead to anxiety by consciously replacing them by more rational thoughts like the following:

When Anxiety is Near:

1. I’m going to be all right. My feelings are not always rational. I’m just going to relax, calm down, and everything will be all right.

2. Anxiety is not dangerous — it’s just uncomfortable. I am fine; I’ll just continue with what I’m doing or find something more active to do.

3. Right now I have some feelings I don’t like. They are really just phantoms, however, because they are disappearing. I will be fine.

4. Right now I have feelings I don’t like. They will be over with soon and I’ll be fine. For now, I am going to focus on doing something else around me.

5. That picture (image) in my head is not a healthy or rational picture. Instead, I’m going to focus on something healthy like _________________________.

6. I’ve stopped my negative thoughts before and I’m going to do it again now. I am becoming better and better at deflecting these automatic negative thoughts (ANTs) and that makes me happy.

7. So I feel a little anxiety now, SO WHAT? It’s not like it’s the first time. I am going to take some nice deep breaths and keep on going. This will help me continue to get better.”

When Preparing for a Stressful Situation

1. I’ve done this before so I know I can do it again.

2. When this is over, I’ll be glad that I did it.

3. The feeling I have about this trip doesn’t make much sense. This anxiety is like a mirage in the desert. I’ll just continue to “walk” forward until I pass right through it.

4. This may seem hard now, but it will become easier and easier over time.

5. I think I have more control over these thoughts and feelings than I once imagined. I am very gently going to turn away from my old feelings and move in a new, betterdirection.

When feeling overwhelmed

1. I can be anxious and still focus on the task at hand. As I focus on the task, my anxiety will go down.

2. Anxiety is a old habit pattern that my body responds to. I am going to calmly and nicely change this old habit. I feel a little bit of peace, despite my anxiety, and this peace is going to grow and grow. As my peace and security grow, then anxiety and panic will have to shrink.

3. At first, my anxiety was powerful and scary, but as time goes by it doesn’t have the hold on me that I once thought it had. I am moving forward gently and nicely all the time.

4. I don’t need to fight my feelings. I realize that these feelings won’t be allowed to stay around very much longer. I just accept my new feelings of peace, contentment, security, and confidence.

5. All these things that are happening to me seem overwhelming. But I’ve caught myself this time and I refuse to focus on these things. Instead, I’m going to talk slowly to myself, focus away from my problem, and continue with what I have to do. In this way, my anxiety will have to shrink away and disappear.

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For me, it’s just y’know.. very noisy brain, ssh. That’s not quitting, that’s not giving up, that’s not forfeiting. It’s surrendering. When you use the word surrender, you remember that there was a fight going on. There was a fight in my brain, an unnecessary battle that I’m fighting with myself. So just kind of.. ssh.. surrender a little bit and you’ll have a flash of something real nice. And then your brain will quickly try and understand it, and it’ll never be able to and it’ll be this horrible cycle. But you’ll feel it, and you’ll want it again.

I really dig that he talks about this.

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One of the reasons I’m so fond of Chris Evans as a person without actually knowing him is that he does talk about this – and in some ways that he experiences it. It makes him seem a little more human than a lot of stars, because he has these experiences and he’s upfront about them. And (at least hopefully) he’s given other people permission to be upfront about them too – I can’t imagine RDJ would talk about that if he hadn’t cleared it with Evans beforehand.

I think it was David Duchovny back in the 90s who gave an interview about how he doesn’t like to talk about his personal life because he feels there’s a finite amount you can give away before there’s nothing left, and in some ways I think that’s true. But I also think that this specific kind of thing, if you give it away, gains you more in the long run. Not just because it helps other people to see that this happens even to famous movie stars but also because it helps to remove the stigma of it, which helps everyone.

So I mean, he may be talking about it for no other reason than that it’s therapeutic for him, but he’s doing good work for people who feel the same way but thought they were alone, or that it wasn’t something that could be talked about.