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Is ignoring your anxiety unhealthy?
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Depends on what school treatment you're trying to implement.
In metacognitive therapy you learn to live with the feelings of anxiety. To get used to them, that they aren't dangerous. When I went through it it reminded me of exposure therapy, but to anxiety and negative outlooks/triggers.
This is of course only one of the many different schools of treatment. Where metacognitive focuses on acknowledging and existing with triggers, cognitive therapy can focus on identifying the train of thought leading to anxiety, and interrupting it before it leads to anxiety.
In any case it's not something you'd want to attempt on your own or without consulting a mental health specialist, psychologist, psychiatrist, what have you.
Also you have to find the approach that's right for you, and be prepared that getting a handle on anxiety might be a long and cumbersome journey.
Source: chronic anxiety and depression.