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Is your anxiety lying to you? 5 signs to watch out for

Published on Jul 26, 2024 03:28 PM IST
  • From generalising to catastrophising, here are a few signs that our anxiety is lying to us.
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Excess stress and poor boundaries in the workplace can cause more burnout – the root cause of this is stress and anxiety. (Unsplash) expand-icon View Photos in a new improved layout
Published on Jul 26, 2024 03:28 PM IST

Excess stress and poor boundaries in the workplace can cause more burnout – the root cause of this is stress and anxiety. (Unsplash)

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Anxiety often makes us feel that we can interpret the thoughts and opinions of other people. This further makes us go into a state of hypervigilance. (Shutterstock) expand-icon View Photos in a new improved layout
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Anxiety often makes us feel that we can interpret the thoughts and opinions of other people. This further makes us go into a state of hypervigilance. (Shutterstock)

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Anxiety lies to us saying that the worst is about to happen to us. It exaggerates the difficulties and challenges. (Unsplash) expand-icon View Photos in a new improved layout
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Anxiety lies to us saying that the worst is about to happen to us. It exaggerates the difficulties and challenges. (Unsplash)

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Anxiety has a way of broadly generalising things to the point that everything starts to look negative to us. (Unsplash) expand-icon View Photos in a new improved layout
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Anxiety has a way of broadly generalising things to the point that everything starts to look negative to us. (Unsplash)

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We start to feel that we are responsible for everything that goes wrong. We start to take things personally, even things that are out of our control. (Unsplash) expand-icon View Photos in a new improved layout
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We start to feel that we are responsible for everything that goes wrong. We start to take things personally, even things that are out of our control. (Unsplash)

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We often believe that our anxiety controls the things around us. We believe that by thinking about things, we can make changes. (Pexels) expand-icon View Photos in a new improved layout
Published on Jul 26, 2024 03:28 PM IST

We often believe that our anxiety controls the things around us. We believe that by thinking about things, we can make changes. (Pexels)

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