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Married to someone with anxiety

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Hi All, I thought I'd share my experience as someone who has been through anxiety and come through the other side. I was very lucky to have (and still have) a fantastic therapist to help and teach me. Why we get anxiety: I sure know how confusing anxiety can be! It doesn't feel like it comes from anywhere clear or that it has an obvious purpose... but in fact is is strangely systematic. Anxiety does two things (we wi…

I am neither from YC or a rich person but I strongly believe in helping people get over these issues and I am interested in learning more about what you're thinking about. For me, I do think that there should be a scalable solution but I also think that the solution should involve more connectedness with the human side of people. Something along the lines of building a network of support like AA but on a grander scal…

Yes - I agree. I think people will always be part of the process of moving through things. It needs to be included in the thing that scales!

Re: Married to someone with anxiety

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What sort of things would you do if one day you manage to overcome anxiety?

I just want to stay at home programming, so it does not matter much

ok, then you wont overcome social anxiety unless youn find a compelling reason to do so.
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