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Ask HN: How do you differentiate between Real anxiety and “Fake” anxiety

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Re: Ask HN: How do you differentiate between Real anxiety and “Fake” anxiety

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My 2 cents… Anxiety is the emotion, not the internal conflict that leads to that emotion. You are having the exact same anxiety in both cases but the cause appears to be slightly different. So the real question is not "what kind of anxiety is this?" but "what causes this anxiety?". The problem, here, is that impostor syndrome, if that's something you actually have, is very likely to skew your perception and prevent y…

"what causes the anxiety" seems right place to start. Thanks for the tip and advice.
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