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Anxiety points towards the future: what might happen or go wrong.

We often try to outrun anxiety by keeping busy instead of confronting it.

Focus on what is within your control—and let go of what is not.

Whereas depression weighs upon life as it is, anxiety points towards the future: what might happen, what might go wrong, what might be expected of us.

Of course, some concern for the future is necessary. It motivates us to do what’s needed, pay our bills, and avoid danger. So the aim cannot be to abolish anxiety altogether—simply to prevent occasional alarm from becoming a permanent state.

The modern world makes this difficult because threats........

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