“Am I right or am I being dumb?” How critical thinking can help you register intrusive and unjustified anxious patterns

Anita Katsarita
11 min readSep 29, 2021
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There is a frequent point during a person’s bumpiest ride with anxiety where they ask themselves: “Am I right or am I being dumb?”. This Hamlet-esque question that would make Billy Shakespeare turn over in his grave, when translated, defines the moment at which the anxiety-driven feel like…

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Anita Katsarita

I write stuff about the stuff. Sometimes, I agree with them. Other times, a few years pass, and I realize my mind has changed. So I just write again.