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I would tell her to keep her mind on positive things and to try and stay calm
 
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You’ve been doing really well following the program and managing your anxiety and you decide to do a bit of exposure and go out for dinner with a friend. Your friend doesn’t know you have trouble with anxiety or why you haven’t been seeing her.  You get to the restaurant and you feel very confident and ready to catch up. You’re not sure if you are ready to talk about your anxiety but you know you have lots of other interesting things to talk about.

Once you sit down your friend looks a little upset. You ask her what’s wrong and she starts to get emotional. She says ever since her move to her new place she has felt very afraid and she doesn’t know why. She feels like she is going crazy as things that used to be no problem for her are now causing her great fear. She says she talked to her husband about it and he says “it’s all in her head” and says she should just stop focusing on the fear.  She says she has been trying to do that but her fear just keeps getting worse.

What do you tell her? What do you do?

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