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[QUOTE="ObbleeXY, post: 6248641, member: 437841"]
As someone with clinical anxiety and depression, I feel well-qualified to answer this.
Play a tonne of games/hands...often playing multiple games simultaneously.

The anxiety comes from valuing the money the chips represent. You must do away with this. Chips are merely tools in a game. You have many tools...

Play 100,000 hands and tell me you're still anxious. You won't be. If you play a freeroll and someone shoves...it's no skin off my back, so there is literally no anxiety.

Get up to $220 buy-ins though and that anxiety starts to creep back...clearly indicating to me that I have no business being in a $220 game! But its the same thing really. If I had played 100K hands in $220 tourneys, I too would get over this as I have for smaller stakes.

At the end of the day, anxiety is related to a feeling of lack of control and sometimes feeling not up to the challenge before us. Become an expert in something and then anxiety is redirected to other things.

Finally, if the game KEEPS making you anxious...then get away from it. Nobody needs that in their lives. But if it gives you excitement, pleasure and general well-being without being too much of a financial burden, shuffle up and deal!

Cheers,
ObbleeeXY
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