"In 2017, Mary wrote her own book about anxiety called What Motivates Getting Things Done (see below). With Mary's information, I was able to fit anxiety into my own model of emotions, Dynamic Emotional Integration, a unified theory of emotions that explores why emotions arise, how they work, and how to work directly with them. Anxiety was once a blank spot in my theory, but thankfully, anxiety is now featured as its own irreplaceable self."
"Anxiety is the emotion of motivation, planning, scheduling, and getting things done. Anxiety helps you gather your resources, complete your tasks, and meet your deadlines. In order to do that, anxiety needs to focus intently on the future, and on making sure that you have the skills, resources, tools, and support you need to do your best work and complete it on time."
Anxiety functions as the emotion of motivation, planning, scheduling, and task completion. Anxiety directs attention toward the future to ensure necessary skills, resources, tools, and support are in place to meet deadlines. Panic is a separate, life-saving response that mobilizes intense energy for fight, flight, freeze, or flock to safety and produces symptoms like sweaty palms, racing heart, and a sense of dread. Widespread confusion frequently mislabels panic symptoms as anxiety, obscuring anxiety's constructive role. Recognizing anxiety as distinct enables its use for organization, preparation, and sustained goal-directed behavior while treating panic as an acute survival reaction.
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