350: Friends and Family How to Talk About Your Anxiety

The Anxiety Coaches Podcast

Gina Ryan

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2017

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Many people do not understand anxiety, even anxiety sufferers do not understand anxiety. In this episode, Gina discusses this issue and how to bring the topic up with friends and family. Seven action steps you can take when telling people about your anxiety: 1) Don't be afraid to tell people 2) Be clear that you are not seeking help from people 3) Don't be too serious about it 4) Let them know you realize it will be hard for them to understand 5) Reassure them that the anxiety does not mean you are fragile and must be excluded from activities 6) Be open to questions 7) Let them know nobody would choose to live this way and that you do not want to live with anxiety Quote: What a wonderful privilege to have the weaknesses of a man and the serenity of a god! -Seneca To learn more go to: What is anxiety? http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/what-is-anxiety/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:15.0	Aloha, welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast.
1:25.0	In today's episode I want to talk about friends and family and how you can talk to them about your anxiety. And I guess we should also include in this work situation.
1:35.0	Often people ask me in email how they can talk to their boss about their anxiety or should they tell their boss.
1:46.2	And so let's talk about that today.
1:48.7	I think it's important that if you feel a desire
1:51.8	to tell particular people about your anxiety that you should.
1:57.1	There is no hard-fast rule that you have to tell the entire world about your anxiety. I think that if you are challenging yourself to live a different life so that you are beginning to clear your anxiety and you may have
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