In Touch, the teaching ministry of Dr. Charles Stanley.

Next on In Touch, All Our Anxieties Part 2.

When anxious moments just grab you and you have no warning that it's coming, how do you respond to that? You feel worried, you feel

somehow fearful, there's some bit of uncertainty about something you've heard or some situation

you find yourself in. How do you handle anxiety? Well, the truth is that most people don't

handle it very well. In fact, most people, instead of handling it properly, usually use some means of dealing with it

that makes their anxiety even worse.

For example, sometimes they will deny.

Well, I'm not anxious at all.

I'm just, just forget it.

When deep down inside, they're very anxious.

Sometimes they will just stuff it.

They admit the fact that, yes, I am, but I'm just going to grit and bear it and move on.

Oftentimes, they will look for someone to blame, and that's their avenue of escape.

If I can find somebody to blame, maybe I won't feel quite so badly.

But sometimes and oftentimes, people, and they become anxious, they look for something that they can take

that will quieten, they would say, their nerves or whatever it might be. And so what do they do?

They'll either go to the doctor or they'll find something over the counter that they can take that sort of, as they would say, quieten them down or settle them down.

And before long, because their anxiety does not go away, it may settle it slightly,

they have to take a little bit more.

And before long, they are absolutely hooked on some form of drug,

and their means of escaping anxiety has simply increased their anxiety.

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