Even though I understand my anxiety and coping skills from a logical perspective, such as what triggers my anxiety and how I can calm myself down, why doesn't understanding make the problem better?

Because anxiety is not something one can control or get rid of easy. But understanding can help cope

Understanding a problem might not always be the solution to the problem. If you understand it, then that's the first step to solving it, such as not putting yourself around your triggers, or making sure you have a positive way to calm yourself down if you do have an anxiety attack

I believe it is because everyone uses two different ways to view the world and make decisions: the logical side and the emotional side. With the logical side, you can see that, for instance, you should break up with so and so because things aren't working. On the emotional side, though, you really don't want to hurt them. This can cause a lot of internal conflict.

Sometimes we can get so consumed in our own anxiety that we truly aren't thinking about how to cope with it....even though we are fully aware of how to calm ourselves down.

Because understanding is not the only part, there is also the fact that after you understand, you must interpret and also you must troubleshoot to figure out the entire equation.

Because it's an I'llness. Understanding the symptoms that come with the flu won't make it disappear.

Because many things are involved when anxiety is triggered and the combination is different every time. You cannot stop the anxiety but you can always manage it better.

Anxiety is an emotional disorder. It isn't strictly caused by a disconnection in the brain. It is hard to cope with anxiety in the moment because when you get into your own head, you can't find the way out. It's like being able to see the key to get out of the room for seconds before the lights are turned off and everything goes pitch black. It is hard to remember the way toward the key, let alone to find the door and lock. Because the whole time we focus on coping skills instead of finding the problem and focusing on getting to the exit.

Sometimes understanding the problem isn't what fixes it. To calm myself I always do the 7-4-8 breathing technique. You breathe in for 7 seconds,hold for 4, and then breathe out for 8.

By being mindful of where you are really helps so you could try observing your senses in the moment like what do I see, Feel, hear and smell. It brings you into reality more