Many people believe anxiety is a mental illness, and this belief is false (did the title give that fact away?). The reality is that anxiety is just the bad habit of not accepting things as they are (the self and/or world). When a person begins to believe that they and/or the world are abnormal, they want to normalize it, so they fight against reality (self and world) instead of changing the inaccurate beliefs. If something is a certain way, then that is normal (and it would be abnormal if it were to be different, which it can't be). The point here is that anxiety is not a mental illness, it is a problem with not accepting reality. Not accepting reality causes reality to be perceived as being abnormal (or "not as it should be"), which causes the conflict between the worldview and the senses. If you want to get rid of anxiety, try to perceive reality as being normal, and adjust your worldviews accordingly so that it matches up. Having an accurate worldview (a worldview that is reflective of how reality is) is an important thing for well-being.
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