Cognitive Therapy Helps Plug a Leak

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Anxiety, like water leaking from a pipe in your home, flows into all availablespaces. Habit, the ways people learn to react to situations, builds arepertoire that may direct anxiety into a variety of places. In a patient who hasbecome an “anxiety-producing machine,” focusing on patterns of thinking can beone road to change.