1272: COVID-19 & How to Cope with Fear & Anxiety
Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
COVID-19 has everyone on edge and in this episode, Sal, Adam and Justin discuss fear and anxiety and how to manage it through this crisis.
- How do we mentally prepare to reemerge back into society? (4:16)
- How fear can drive irrational behavior and distort perception. (9:00)
- Mind Pump shares personal accounts of coping with fear and anxiety. (12:50)
- What fear does to the body. (23:10)
- Actionable options to manage fear and anxiety. (31:25)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go. |
| 0:06.0 | MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, with your hosts. |
| 0:09.0 | Salta Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. |
| 0:13.0 | In this episode of Mind Pump, you know, we wanted to tackle something that's probably |
| 0:19.0 | hurting a lot of people right now, and that's fear and anxiety. |
| 0:23.0 | Weird times right now, right? We're all dealing with this COVID-19 situation, |
| 0:28.0 | a lot of businesses have had to shut down. We're all self-isolating, |
| 0:33.0 | uncertain, scary times, and you know, we were thinking about gosh, you know, |
| 0:38.0 | they're going to tell us all to go back to work pretty soon, |
| 0:41.0 | and we're going to have to not just deal with the, you know, being percautious |
| 0:46.0 | and making sure we don't catch or spread this virus, |
| 0:49.0 | but also have the deal with the fear and anxiety of being out in the world. |
| 0:54.0 | And so in this episode, we talk about our own personal experiences with fear and anxiety. |
| 0:59.0 | Why, how chronic fear drove our behaviors in incorrect ways and ways that were detrimental? |
| 1:07.0 | We talk about what fear does to the body. Why it's essential, |
| 1:12.0 | but also why chronic fear can actually be a huge health problem. |
| 1:16.0 | How it affects your digestive system, your brain, your thoughts, |
| 1:21.0 | and how chronic fear can cause a lot of problems. |
| 1:25.0 | And then we give you actionable, constructive options, |
| 1:30.0 | things that you can do for yourself to not just manage fear, |
| 1:34.0 | but to bring it to healthy level so that it's rational and no longer irrational. |
| 1:40.0 | Now this episode is brought to you by Legion. |
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