🤔 What Is an Anxious Personality Type?

It’s a stable tendency to see the world as unsafe, and yourself as not quite ready to handle it.

📌 Example:

You get a task at work — and your first thought is: “I can’t handle this, it’s going to be a failure,” even if you have all the necessary skills.

🧬 How Does the Anxious Type Form?

The reasons can vary — and usually, there are several:

🔹 Biology — a sensitive nervous system.
🔹 Experience — overprotection, criticism in childhood, trauma.
🔹 Thinking — a habit of focusing on danger and ignoring the good.

🚫 Why Don’t Attempts to ‘Get Rid of’ Anxiety Work?

Anxious people often:

• Avoid anxiety-provoking situations
• Try to control everything down to the smallest detail
• Tell themselves: “Just don’t think about it!”

But… ❗️ The more you fight anxiety, the stronger it gets. Paradoxical, right?

🌿 What Does Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) Offer?

ACT doesn’t aim to eliminate anxiety. It teaches you to:

✅ Accept anxiety as an experience
✅ Not identify yourself with anxious thoughts
✅ Live according to your values — even when anxious

🔄 3 Steps of ACT: How to Live with an Anxious Min*

1. 🔍 Notice Anxiety Without Merging With It

Your mind says: “This is a disaster!” — but you are not your thoughts.

📌 Practice:

• Name the anxiety: “This is my mind running the ‘everything will go wrong’ script.”
• Add: “I notice that I’m feeling anxious” — this creates internal distance.

2. ✅ Allow Yourself to Be Anxious

Trying to "suffocate" anxiety is like fighting quicksand — the more you struggle, the deeper you sink.

🧘 Instead:

• Acknowledge: “Yes, I’m anxious. It’s uncomfortable, but not dangerous.”

• Shift attention to the present: “What do I see, hear, and feel right now?”

3. 🚶‍♂️ Act Even If You Feel Anxious

The goal is not to eliminate anxiety, but to stop letting it run your life.

📌 Example:

• Value: “I want to be an attentive parent.”
• Action: “I talk to my child, even if I’m anxious I might say something wrong.”

💡 Important to Remember: Anxiety Is Not a Sentence

Yes, your mind may be prone to worry. But:

✨ You can choose how to respond
✨ You can act despite anxiety
✨ You are so much more than your anxiety

🌱 What’s Next?

If anxiety is interfering with your life, try:

🎧 The “Observer” Technique — imagine your anxious thoughts as a radio. You hear them, but you don’t have to believe them.

🎯 Ask yourself: “What really matters to me?” and take a small step in that direction.

🗣 Reach out to a psychologist who works with ACT — a therapy based on scientific evidence.

🎒 Anxiety Is a Suitcase You Carry With You

Sometimes it’s heavy, yes. But you keep moving forward. And that’s what matters most ❤️