Dear Num6:

You are welcome. I agree: anxiety never helped me, never increased my safety or the safety of anyone I was concerned with. Anxiety only harms. In nature fear is helpful as it motivates an animal to run or fight real danger. In human life ongoing, repeating and exhausting fear (aka anxiety) reduces our ability to respond well to real danger, because we imagine danger to be everywhere. We kind of exhaust ourselves responding to imagined anxiety all day long and when real danger appears, we are often too exhausted to notice.

anita