The temptation, with dealing with anxiety is always and invariably to focus on the ostensible cause of our worry: the journey to the airport, the forthcoming speech, the letter one is waitting for, the presentation one has to hand in... But if we proceed mo psychologically, we might begin in a different place. With great kindness and no disrespect, we may step past the objective content of anxiety and look instead at some thing else: how the anxious person feels about themselves. An unexpected cause of high anxiety is self-hatred