[Money and Anxiety] The paradox: the more you try to eliminate anxiety, the more anxious you become

1. A column-style article about how controlling anxiety in an effort to eliminate it makes it grow larger and last longer.
2. Reporter Hyeon Seungmin writes that when anxiety is set as something to be eliminated, the mind stays in surveillance mode.
3. Rather than managing anxiety to reduce it, the first step is to set the standard for what counts as normal, and he suggests practising pausing interpretation and action for a while.

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