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🗓️ 21 November 2025
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Many of us are feeling anxiety right now, which shouldn't be surprising in such an anxious time. But it's important we keep in mind that while appropriate anxiety is healthy, too much of it can do damage to our health. So how much anxiety is too much? In this chat, Dr. Daniel Amen gives you 22 symptoms of anxiety, so you can count off which ones apply to you and determine where you're at with your anxiety levels. He then gives you 4 simple solutions to help get your anxiety in check.
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| 0:00.0 | Every day you are making your brain better or you are making it worse. |
| 0:07.0 | Stay with us to learn how you can change your brain for the better every day. |
| 0:14.0 | When we do an evaluation at Aeman Clinics, I have people fill out the answer to 300 questions. |
| 0:23.6 | You fill about 25 pages of information. |
| 0:26.6 | So when we do an evaluation at A.M. |
| 0:28.6 | Clinics, yes, we're famous, infamous for the brain imaging work we do. |
| 0:35.6 | And it's really important, but we never make diagnosis from brain scans we get to know you |
| 0:40.6 | really well and in the process of getting to know you i have something called a brain system |
| 0:49.2 | checklist where i'm looking how do your frontal lobes work? Are you flexible? |
| 1:00.7 | Is your anxiety centers working too hard? Is your limbic brain, your emotional brain, |
| 1:09.2 | working too hard? What's going on in your temporal lobes? |
| 1:11.9 | Very important. So tonight I want to talk about your anxiety centers. And is it the pandemic |
| 1:23.4 | or were you anxious before all this happened? Anxiety disorders are the number one common cause, the number one cause of mental health issues. |
| 1:37.0 | Now, I'll call them brain health issues and do in the end of mental illness. |
| 1:41.7 | But how do you know? |
| 1:43.4 | And the pandemic's made almost, not some, but almost all of us, more anxious. |
| 1:51.3 | In fact, I would say your stress level, your baseline stress level went up at least 30%. |
| 2:01.6 | All right. |
| 2:05.6 | So I'm going to go through the symptoms |
| 2:07.6 | and then we're going to talk about what to do about it. |
| 2:09.6 | So number one is you have frequent feelings of nervousness |
| 2:14.6 | or anxiety. |
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