14 Things that Actually Help Severe Anxiety

Therapy in a Nutshell

Therapy in a Nutshell -Emma McAdam

Mental Health, Education, Health & Fitness:mental Health, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 12 November 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Learn to Regulate your Nervous System with my FREE online Course: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/grounding-skills-for-anxiety-stress-and-ptsd Defusion Phrases: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/opt-in-8ed048f8-b60f-418b-9d80-cb6374eb68c6 Defusion Phrases Video: https://youtu.be/8Ws8_Y_PQ8E?si=ScD4gA4Nk3tXZuLd Today I talk with my friend, Rachael, about her experience with a severe anxiety disorder. Rachael struggle with anxiety and depression, insomnia and appetite changes for years. But she continued to learn and grow, to try various treatments until she finally found some things that worked for her anxiety. I'm so grateful that Rachael was willing to come on my channel and share her experience with anxiety and I hope that this will help others with their anxiety treatment too. Looking for affordable online counseling? My sponsor, BetterHelp, connects you to a licensed professional from the comfort of your own home. Try it now for 10% off your first month: https://betterhelp.com/therapyinanutshell Learn more in one of my in-depth mental health courses: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com Support my mission on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/therapyinanutshell Sign up for my newsletter: https://www.therapyinanutshell.com Check out my favorite self-help books: https://kit.co/TherapyinaNutshell/best-self-help-books Therapy in a Nutshell and the information provided by Emma McAdam are solely intended for informational and entertainment purposes and are not a substitute for advice, diagnosis, or treatment regarding medical or mental health conditions. Although Emma McAdam is a licensed marriage and family therapist, the views expressed on this site or any related content should not be taken for medical or psychiatric advice. Always consult your physician before making any decisions related to your physical or mental health. In therapy I use a combination of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Systems Theory, positive psychology, and a bio-psycho-social approach to treating mental illness and other challenges we all face in life. The ideas from my videos are frequently adapted from multiple sources. Many of them come from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, especially the work of Steven Hayes, Jason Luoma, and Russ Harris. The sections on stress and the mind-body connection derive from the work of Stephen Porges (the Polyvagal theory), Peter Levine (Somatic Experiencing) Francine Shapiro (EMDR), and Bessel Van Der Kolk. I also rely heavily on the work of the Arbinger Institute for my overall understanding of our ability to choose our life's direction. And deeper than all of that, the Gospel of Jesus Christ orients my personal worldview and sense of security, peace, hope, and love https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/comeuntochrist/believe If you are in crisis, please contact the National Suicide Prevention Hotline at https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org or 1-800-273-TALK (8255) or your local emergency services. Copyright Therapy in a Nutshell, LLC

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0:00.0	Welcome back to another episode of the Therapy in a nutshell podcast. I'm Emma McAdam and I'm a licensed marriage and family therapist. And this podcast is all about taking the life-changing, but usually kind of complicated topics of therapy and boiling them down into simple, easy-to-understand concepts that you can use in your daily life. If you find today's
0:21.7	episode is helpful to you, please pass it on to someone else who could benefit from it as well.
0:25.9	Each podcast episode comes from a corresponding video you can find on the Therapy in a Nutshell
0:30.3	YouTube channel. Also, these podcasts are educational and don't replace the advice or direction
0:35.1	you may be receiving from a therapist or other health professionals.
0:38.5	Now please, enjoy the episode.
0:40.9	You want to hear all the things I tried?
0:42.1	I've tried EMDR, ketamine, CBD oil, energy healing, dozens of medications.
0:47.9	I've had about half a dozen therapists, neurofeedback.
0:50.9	I've been in two inpatient programs that were kind of like a rehab for people with
0:54.5	mental health issues. I've been hospitalized. I had shock therapy. And I was like, I can't believe they
0:59.3	even do that anymore. I felt hopeless that I wasn't ever going to get better, that this couldn't
1:04.1	be cured, that none of these things had worked. I was always going to be miserable, make my family
1:08.8	miserable. And then just some of these things gave me a little glimpse of light so that I could be like,
1:15.1	oh, that went well.
1:16.7	I wonder if that could happen again.
1:21.2	This is my friend Rachel Galvez.
1:23.3	She and I have known each other for a couple of years, and she's never been a client of mine.
1:27.7	We met in the neighborhood, and we volunteered together.
1:30.9	One of the things I've seen is that four years ago seemed like you had some anxiety,
1:35.8	but you were functioning pretty well.
1:38.0	And then a couple of years ago, what I noticed was I would see you at church and you would just be pacing.
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