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[quote=Anonymous]I recently started seeing a therapist about anxiety and being unable to stop focusing on all the bad things happening in the world.  She's nice and I enjoy our chats, but when I talk about things that worry or upset me she says, "Well, don't worry about them."  Like, when there's something terrible in the news: "That's not going to happen to you.  It doesn't affect you."  I know it's not going to happen to me, but that doesn't make me feel any better about the fact it's happening to other people just like me, and I can't stop thinking about it happening to them.

I'm frustrated.  But, I am not sure what I expect her to do or say.  I don't know if a different therapist would be helpful, because I don't know what anyone can really do to make me not horrified by horrible things that happen.  Maybe I need religion instead of therapy.

Those with experience: is my therapist's approach pretty normal?  Or could I expect something more concrete if I went elsewhere?  She is the second therapist I've seen and the other was equally baffled by my inability to just logic my way through anxiety.[/quote]

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