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b'For when you can\\u2019t stop feeling worried or obsessed with what is threatening your stability in life \\u2013 a stress response based on past traumas or recent ones, for that matter. In this episode, \\u2018survival mode\\u2019 is the term we are giving a pervasive sense of fear and stress and anxiety over issues that are not a real threat, though they are experienced in hypotheticals. Survival mode drives people to obsessively think about painful things: things past, things to come, analyzing and solving endlessly. In other words \\u2013 like the worst version of brain overdrive you can imagine and all the time. It\\u2019s so powerful that it takes over your life. This can come in varying degrees \\u2013 from intolerable writhing panic to manageable but potent worry. Regardless, it\\u2019s always something that keeps you outside of your life \\u2013 unable to truly engage and enjoy it as you see others do. Living in survival mode, you want to run and you don\\u2019t know where. This one is for Heather! I heart you girl \\u2013 hope this helps the teensiest bit. For more of my writing head to TeaspoonofHappy.com\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'