# Stop Fixing Yourself - The Hidden Trance That Keeps Anxiety 

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> Last updated: 2026-09-14

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- [The Hidden Trance: The State That Keeps Anxiety Alive](https://stopfixingyourself.com/the-hidden-trance/): The hidden trance is the absorbed state of monitoring and fixing yourself that keeps anxiety alive. The full definition of the term from Stop Fixing Yourself: what it is, how it forms, why effort deepens it, and how it ends.
- [Does Self-Help Actually Increase Anxiety? The Evidence](https://stopfixingyourself.com/does-self-help-increase-anxiety/): A meta-analysis found self-help's effect on anxiety was small and not statistically significant. Why constant self-monitoring, suppression, and the fix-yourself frame can keep anxiety alive, and what the evidence supports instead.
- [Thought suppression effect: why fighting thoughts backfires](https://stopfixingyourself.com/thought-suppression-effect/): Trying not to think about something tends to make it louder. The thought suppression effect explained: Wegner's white bear, why short-term relief keeps you trapped, and what the research points to instead.
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- [Why trying to fix anxiety makes it worse, not better](https://stopfixingyourself.com/why-trying-to-fix-anxiety-makes-it-worse/): Trying to get rid of anxiety works as a trigger. Suppression, safety behaviors, and reassurance all tell your nervous system the threat is real. Here's why the fixing becomes the fuel, and what stopping the fix actually looks like.

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