Everyone has anxiety and stress. It is in how you have prepared for it and how you deal with that matters. Very rarely is the "event" actually an emergency or insurmountable obstacle. Our reactions to or lack of preparation for stressful situations are what we need to monitor. It is important to be able to step back and evaluate what is really happening and what are the real results. Some of the most stress producing thoughts are the ones that are about things that haven't happened yet. (87)
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