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Let us assume you discovered that in fact your anxiety was due to your trying to push your nervous system beyond its capacity. If you just stop doing that, your anxiety will subside. No harm done. The alarm mechanism has done its job.

However, like many other people, you may not think it is possible for you to reduce the load on your nervous system. You may have convinced yourself that there is no alternative to pushing yourself beyond the comfortable limits of your nervous system’s processing capacity. I have to ask you then some more questions.

1.  Are you sure you can’t get any help, or is it your pride that makes you determined to do this work or face this problem without help?

2.  Are you doubling your problem by setting time limits on work when you have no way of guaranteeing the performance of others who are also involved?

3. Are you fruitlessly trying to work out by yourself, in advance, how to deal with problems that may arise, when in reality the solution to those problems will require the cooperation of others?

Perhaps you might find after answering all these questions that you are in fact a person who has no alternative except to continue putting up with the anxiety because nobody else can really help. You may in fact be the only person who can stay up all night with a sick child or a dying relative, or you may have to see a task or problem through because you may be the only person qualified or able to do the job.

In this case, you might still be able to avoid further stress breakdown if you realize that immediately after the urgency has passed, you must pay back the psychic energy you borrowed in order to keep going under the stress. And remember, you are like Cinderella: your magic will definitely run out. However, Cinderalla had the advantage of knowing it would run out at the stroke of midnight; you aren’t sure how long you can keep going under stress, ignoring the warning signals.

If you decide you cannot slow down or avoid the stress, you must make sure that you get as much sleep as possible, snatching forty winks here and there as you can. You must eat regularly and you must not try to drive yourself to keep going by using stimulants. You should not take alcohol or sedative drugs. When the worst of the stress is over, you should rest and be looked after for a few days.

Above all, you must not make wrong assumptions about the anxiety symptoms you experience. Anxiety is not a sign of weakness, it is a sign of a normally functioning nervous system.

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