 How to stop being afraid? How can I not be afraid is a question that anxious people ask all the time. There's no fast answer to that. You can't just decide to not be afraid. That's not a switch, you can just turn off. You can't tell yourself to not be afraid. That doesn't work. You've probably been trying. In the context of anxiety recovery, we can only learn to not be afraid, or at least learn that we don't have to be afraid or that we don't have to be as afraid. It's probably more accurate. You have to learn to not be afraid or learn how to not be as afraid. And the way we do that is to take action while afraid. Unfortunately, that's the answer I'm always gonna have for you. And when you do that, your brain will learn that it has been wrong. It's been doing wrong math. It's been overestimating risk. It's been blowing fear out of proportion. That's how you do that. So if you've been beating your head against the wall, trying to figure out a way to just turn off your fear, you can stop doing that because that's not fair to yourself. There's no way to just decide to stop being afraid. You have to learn to not be afraid.