Fai Mos·August 25, 2026
What Anxiety Actually Is, and Why Telling Yourself to Calm Down Doesn't Work
The instruction to calm down is one of the least useful things you can offer an anxious person. Including yourself. I say this not to be contrary, but because understanding why it doesn't work gets you much closer to what does. And what it comes down to is this: anxiety is not a thought. It's a bodily state. And you cannot think your way out of a body state.
