# When Coping Skills for Anxiety Go Wrong | EP 332

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Podcast: [The Anxious Truth - A Panic, Anxiety, and Mental Health Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-anxious-truth-a-panic-anxiety-and-mental-health-podcast-1095844)
Published: 2025-12-03T15:00:00+00:00
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Duration seconds: 1579

## Resource

Anxious people love coping skills and coping strategies. Everybody loves to cope. But today we're going to talk about how coping can go off the rails and become part of the problem instead of part of the solution. When you're dealing with chronic anxiety or an anxiety disorder, coping strategies can actually backfire. Every time you frantically reach for your grounding techniques or breathing exercises because you desperately need to calm down, you might be reinforcing the belief that your i...

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