What is avoidance and how is it related to anxiety?
Avoidance is where you are active in anything except what you need to do.
When we have a project due and are highly anxious, moving towards the project will create very, very uncomfortable anxiety symptoms. We will do anything to avoid these symptoms because we are human beings and human beings don’t like pain. So we will do things that usually are difficult such as unloading the dishwasher instead of actually sitting down and finishing a book that’s due for example.
Avoidance doesn’t mean you’re sitting in a corner doing nothing. In fact, some people are extremely active during the avoidance process.
I find it interesting that our brains can do multiple things… except the task we’re assigned to do.
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