022: Scared Stiff — What Is Anxiety? (Part 1)

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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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🗓️ 6 February 2017

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

David and Fabrice answer these questions:

What is anxiety?
How does it differ from depression?
Do anxiety and depression always go hand in hand?
How does anxiety differ from healthy fear?
What are the most common forms of anxiety?
How common is anxiety?

Anxiety, like depression, has been called the world’s oldest con. That’s because you are always fooling yourself, and buying into negative thoughts that aren’t true, when you’re feeling anxious and insecure. Dr. Burns highlights the most common cognitive distortions that trigger anxiety, and discusses the powerful role of shame in anxiety.

In the next several podcasts, Dr. Burns will describe powerful, fast-acting, drug-free treatment methods that can help you defeat every type of anxiety, Including

Chronic worrying
Phobias
Social anxiety
Public speaking anxiety
Shyness
OCD (Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder)
PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder)
Panic attacks
Agoraphobia
BDD (Body Dysmorphic Disorder)

So stay tuned!

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Feeling Good podcast.
0:12.4	I am your host, Fabrice Nye.
0:14.8	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
0:35.6	over 20 languages. He is an emeritus adjunct
0:39.1	clinical professor of psychiatry at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
0:45.0	All right, so we're going to start today a series on anxiety in today's podcast will be a kind of introduction about, well, what is
0:59.2	anxiety? We need to kind of define what we're talking about and how it's treated.
1:07.6	You know, anxiety versus fear, what's really the difference and how does anxiety differ from
1:13.8	depression?
1:17.6	So we have a lot to cover here, and so we'll have several podcasts on this.
1:24.7	So why don't we get to...
1:25.7	And I might say that today will'll be kind of an introduction to
1:28.4	anxiety, so, you know, some of the understanding anxiety, the kinds of anxieties, but the
1:35.6	podcast will be focusing on powerful, specific techniques that people can use to overcoming anxiety.
1:43.8	Yes.
1:44.1	It's going to have a real practical, helpful, helpful focus, I think.
1:49.0	So don't we start with what anxiety is?
1:52.0	I mean, what are we talking about?
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