Topic
Anxiety
8 articles
The Dichotomy of Control: What Epictetus Actually Meant
The dichotomy of control is the most quoted and most misunderstood Stoic idea. What Epictetus actually meant, why 'just focus on what you can control' misses it, and how to use it without going numb.
July 4, 2026
Negative Visualization: The 60-Second Stoic Drill (No Spiral)
Negative visualization in 60 seconds: the exact Stoic drill, the dosage rule, and how to picture loss without spiralling into anxiety.
June 30, 2026
Premeditatio Malorum: The One Rule That Isn't Anxiety Itself
Premeditatio malorum is the Stoic practice of rehearsing what could go wrong. There is one rule that separates it from anxiety — and the popular versions drop it.
June 14, 2026
Thought Defusion Techniques — How to Unhook From a Thought
You've been told a hundred times to let the thought go. Nobody showed you how. Here are the techniques, taught — and why they stop working.
June 1, 2026
Anxious Attachment: Why You Know the Facts but Still Panic
Anxious attachment isn't a flaw in your character. It's a threat-detection system doing exactly what it was built to do — which is why understanding it never seems to switch it off.
May 28, 2026
What Catastrophizing Actually Means — and Why Your Brain Does It
Catastrophizing is your mind treating the worst-case story as the likely one. Here's the mechanism — and the ancient practice that inverts it.
May 24, 2026
Why You Overreact — and How to Stop Emotional Dysregulation
The reaction that arrives five sizes too big has a name — and it's a mechanism you can work with, not a flaw in who you are.
May 24, 2026
What Anxiety Actually Is — The Stoic and Psychological Account
Anxiety doesn't feel like a choice. The Stoics identified it as a judgement about an uncertain future — which means part of it is yours to revise.
May 10, 2026