Comment by paltry.dosage.0e@icloud.com on Why does anxiety (?) make me dumb? · 2023-07-08T20:44:11.724Z · LW · GW

>What would you say if I told you I’m stuck at the first step, the one that goes ‘understand the content of the statement’?

I would say proceed no further until you do understand, or accept that you will never understand, which will leave your mind free to focus on something else. Anxiety, for me, is defined as knowing something to be true that I refuse to believe. I have found it a helpful definition.