013: Ask David — Is Anxiety Inevitable?

Feeling Good Podcast | TEAM-CBT - The New Mood Therapy

David Burns, MD

Clinical, Therapy, Anxiety, Psychotherapy, Depression, Health & Fitness, Cognitive, Mentalhealth, Mental Health, Behavior, Education, Self-improvement, Psychology, Relationships, Addiction, Happiness, Personalgrowth

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🗓️ 5 December 2016

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

A fan points out that many of the examples in David’s book, When Panic Attacks, are high functioning individuals with lots of education and good jobs. She asks Dr. Burns if depression and anxiety are inevitable among people who are poorly educated and without many assets. Dr. Burns again addresses the ancient but persistent question of whether our suffering results from the actual problems in our lives, or rather by our distorted thoughts about them.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Feeling Good podcast.
0:12.4	I am your host, Fabrice Knight.
0:14.7	And joining me here in the Murrieta Studios is Dr. David Burns.
0:19.0	Hi, David.
0:20.0	Hi, Fabrice.
0:23.8	Dr. David Burns has been a pioneer in the development of cognitive therapy, and he is the creator of the new team therapy. He is the author of
0:30.2	Feeling Good, which has sold over 5 million copies in the United States, and has been translated into
0:35.5	over 20 languages. He is an emeritus adjunct clinical professor
0:40.0	of psychiatry at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Okay, so today we are going to do one of our
0:48.3	Ask David podcasts where we answer some messages and questions from our listeners.
0:56.7	And so the first one is from Kim.
1:01.2	And Kim tells us, I've been reading When Panic Attacks, which is one of your very popular
1:06.6	books, and I'm halfway through the book.
1:10.5	But I'm not sure if any of the stories are stories I can
1:14.6	relate to. Most of these stories are people with awesome jobs and talents, and in some sense,
1:21.3	they can be taken as ungrateful or an appreciative of their life or for what they have
1:26.4	accomplished.
1:33.0	And so she asked, what about the lower-class individuals who struggle with real problems and don't have answers that will result in feeling much better at the end of the downward arrow technique,
1:38.8	which we haven't talked about, but maybe you can mention something about this.
1:43.3	People that have valid reasons to be anxious and to have fears.
1:49.2	Well, that's a great question, and there is always a temptation to say my problems are real.
1:58.4	Yeah.
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