The Worst Thing You Can Do for Anxiety

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🗓️ 15 January 2026

⏱️ 13 minutes

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0:29.9	All right.
0:31.6	Is there one single thing that is the worst thing you can do for anxiety. To create anxiety, to experience
0:43.9	anxiety. No. But I have a whole bunch of stuff that contribute to anxiety. So I'll take them one at a time as the habits, the habits
0:59.5	that make anxiety and make it worse.
1:07.8	Procrastination, which is also known as avoidance. That's what procrastinate. Why do I procrastinate
1:15.6	because you're trying to avoid what you need to do, experience, see, feel, whatever. You're avoiding.
1:22.9	That's what procrastination is. If I do this and fail, I'll look bad, so I'm going to find ways to
1:29.5	just avoid my ultimate fear, which is looking like crap and having people mad at me and
1:35.8	failing and the rest of that. So avoiding tasks for anxiety increases anxiety.
1:49.0	Sleep deprivation.
1:50.7	Lack of quality sleep makes it much harder to manage your emotional state and your stress.
1:57.5	It triggers anxiety.
2:04.5	And then anxiety disrupts sleep.
2:08.3	No sleep makes anxiety worse.
2:11.2	Worse anxiety disrupts sleep.
2:12.9	Have I gone in that circle enough?
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