Having anxiety is like continually visiting a shady fortune teller who predicts that everything in your future is going to be a terrible disaster and then demands a hefty payment. But...

...almost all its predictions are fiction, fantasies, lies and half truths – grotesquely exaggerated, inaccurate and wrong. And there is absolutely no obligation for you to pay a single penny for such a con. You're made to believe that by visiting this fortune teller and paying your dues you can somehow avert disaster, but ironically the real disaster is living a joyless life under its dreadful influence and control.