9781422273838

Stressed Out

Has this ever happened to you? You walk into school one morning and discover there is a special assembly. The assembly has a guest speaker and, it turns out, that guest speaker is you. You were not expecting this at all. The principal grabs you by the arm and drags you up in front of the audience. Everyone you know is there, waiting for you to speak. But you have no idea what to say. You stand alone, beneath a blinding spotlight, and when you look down, you realize with horror that you aren’t wearing pants. What Is Anxiety? Hopefully, the situation described above hasn’t literally happened to you! But you probably recognize the general theme of that story from a nightmare you’ve had. Maybe the dream involved taking a big test that you hadn’t studied for, getting stuck underwater with no way out, or being laughed at by everyone you know. These are all anxiety dreams. Some people have them frequently, and others just once in a while, but everyone has had a dream like this at some point. That’s

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