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IFS for Anxiety
The scanner, the catastrophizer, the controller — and the exile underneath
Anxiety is almost never one part. There's usually a scanner (looking for threat), a catastrophizer (spinning worst cases), a controller (planning), and an exile underneath (some version of unsafe).
Map your anxiety team
Part
What it does
What it fears
What Self would say to it
Scanner · catastrophizer · controller · exile.
Which part is loudest today
What all of them are really trying to keep from happening
Anxiety is a team, not a symptom
Meeting each part with Self, one at a time, does something SSRIs alone can't do — it teaches the whole system that Self is home base.