The Negative Approach To Anxiety [1]

Most therapeutic approaches to anxiety are 'positive' in the sense that they offer methods that are said to provide a helpful way of working with the condition.  There is however no 'method' that can help with anxiety - we live in a culture that is based on the principle of controlling and rationalizing everything and so the idea that there can be such a thing as a 'method' to help us stop worrying or a 'strategy to deal with anxiety sounds eminently reasonable to us.  This is merely our cultural bias though - any reflection the matter will show that the idea of being able to control anxiety when it is our over-emphasis on controlling (which is to say, our neuroticism) that breeds the anxiety in the first place to be necessarily self-contradictory.