Editing Paradoxical intention (section)

=== Recursive anxiety ===

Research has also configured links between the effectiveness of paradoxical intention as a treatment towards recursive anxiety. Patients whose phobias originate from recursive anxiety have shown greater improvement with PI related treatments. This occurs due to paradoxical intention overcoming performance anxiety and facilitating natural sleep, unlike situations where external factors e.g. noise, temperature, etc. affect sleeping ability. Recursive anxiety is also a result of the anticipatory fear that anxiety causes a lack of self-control leading to public embarrassment and judgement. Therefore, recursive anxiety leads to individuals attempting to control their cognitive environment by adjusting thoughts and behaviour to minimize stimuli inhibiting calmness.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Ascher|first1=L. M|last2=Schotte|first2=David E|date=1999-06-01|title=Paradoxical intention and recursive anxiety|url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0005791699000099|journal=Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry|language=en|volume=30|issue=2|pages=71–79|doi=10.1016/S0005-7916(99)00009-9|pmid=10489084 |issn=0005-7916|url-access=subscription}}</ref>