15.50 Example: Avoiding Anxiety Part 1
The Dark Side of Language
For example, trying to avoid anxiety is likely to make anxiety worse. Why? Because we avoid dangerous things. Like most organisms, if something is dangerous, we avoid it.

The dominance of verbal relations
Bidirectional transformation of stimulus functions
Rampant rule following
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