Hey everyone, welcome to podcast number 28 and it is about anxiety. This podcast I think has been,

well, the topic of the podcast has been probably one of my most requested things to do. There's been

so many times where I've been like, I might do anxiety, I might do this and I've always gone for

the other one.

To be dead honest, purely because the amount of planning that goes behind the anxiety podcast is quite a bit because there's just so many different facets to anxiety.

So I was like, just fucking sit down, Alexis, get your shit together and put together

the anxiety podcast. Because I think it's going to

be really good. I'm going to be talking about the way I'm actually going to break it down is I'm

going to be talking about actual anxiety disorders and then I'm going to be talking about

feelings of anxiety as well because I would imagine that every single one of us at some point in

our life has experienced anxiety.

If you haven't, that's not normal because anxiety is actually a natural response to something.

But then there's sort of excessive anxiety and then from excessive anxiety,

then that goes into having an anxiety problem to then having an actual anxiety disorder.

So the first thing I will be doing is breaking down the main anxiety disorders.

Keep in mind, I'm not going to be mentioning all of them.

And some anxiety disorders are going to be subcategories of the one that I mentioned.

So I'm just going to be breaking down kind of the main ones or the most common ones.

And then after I talk about that, I'm going to be talking about a little bit of the

pharmacology of like how people treat those disorders.

But then I'm going to spend the main part of the rest of the podcast dealing with feelings

of anxiety because this,

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