Then a memory stirs in you and you start feeling anxious.

接着你脑海中涌现出一段回忆，并开始感到不安。

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Telling yourself to stop being anxious when you're feeling anxious is a bit like telling yourself to fall asleep when you have insomnia—it doesn't work.

当你感到焦虑时，告诉自己不要焦虑，这有点像当你失眠时，告诉自己要入睡一样——是行不通的。

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I told him I was feeling anxious about turning thirty.

我告诉他自己就要30岁了，心里很担忧。

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Aesthetically, however, it packs a huge punch and, unusually for choreography, leaves one feeling anxious, unsure as to what has just been witnessed.

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Part of the reason people are feeling anxious right now, it's not just because of this current crisis -- they've been going through this for 10 years.

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"If you are psychologically aware, you will realize you are feeling anxious and picking up rejection cues, " says Hal Shorey, a psychologist and assistant professor for the Institute for Graduate Clinical Psychology at Widener University in Chester, Pa.

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