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

From generalising to catastrophising, here are a few signs that our anxiety is lying to us.

Published on: Jul 26, 2024 3:28 PM IST

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)