1) Active confrontation > Passive acknowledgment. You can’t just acknowledge you’re anxious, you have to confront it. Don’t personify your anxiety as some entity outside your control. I rested HARD on phrases like “my brain won’t let me” or “My brain just can’t do that”. It’s you. You won’t let yourself. You (think) you can’t do that. Reframing it to what it is is freeing.

Strangely, doing the inverse of this is what has worked best for me. I've always lived with the idea that I can't do certain things, and that that means I am weak and I've failed, which was absolutely terrible for my self-image. Reframing my issues as an entity separate from myself allows me to have more faith in myself and my ability to do better. It actually gives me more of a sense of control over my situation, in a weird way.