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25. Why does anxiety feel different from fear?

Understanding the patterns behind this experience

AI recognizes patterns.
Understanding comes from lived experience.

"The nervous system remains in a state of heightened prediction when past pain has not been processed."

anxiety is your body's response to perceived threat, whether real or imagined. that anxiety often comes from unaddressed emotional wounds and past trauma. Your nervous system learned to stay on high alert to responds you from pain, and this pattern continues even when you're safe.

anxiety as part of , where unhealed wounds create ongoing patterns of fear and hypervigilance. that anxiety is not just a mental experience but a physical one too. It manifests in your body through tension, racing heart, and other symptoms because your entire nervous system is responding to what it perceives as danger.

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