407: Am I Just My Anxiety Now? Dealing with Extreme Anxiety and Career Changes

The Hardcore Self Help Podcast with Duff the Psych

Robert Duff, Ph.D.

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🗓️ 26 July 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Navigating Intense Anxiety and Career Changes

Hello, friends! In today’s episode, we tackle two profound listener questions that may resonate with many of you:

Managing Severe Anxiety: A listener is struggling with intense daily anxiety and dissociation, impacting their ability to function in daily tasks like going to work or shopping. We discuss immediate tips, potential medical checks, and therapy approaches to manage anxiety effectively.

Considering a Career Shift: Another listener is contemplating a career change from music education to educational psychology. They seek advice on the feasibility, job prospects, and resources to pursue this new career path.

As always, you can send me questions to [email protected] and find the full show notes for this episode at http://duffthepsych.com/episode407

00:00 Introduction to Anxiety
00:17 Episode Overview and Listener Questions
00:56 Engaging with the Community
01:45 Addressing Severe Anxiety
05:15 Exploring Medical and Therapeutic Options
11:24 Understanding Anxiety and Fear
20:43 Career Change Considerations
28:10 Conclusion and Farewell

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0:00.0	Anxiety is a common experience.
0:02.7	Most people know what it's like to have ruminating thoughts
0:05.3	and physical sensations of anxiety,
0:07.2	like racing heartbeat, trouble breathing,
0:09.6	or that impending sense of doom that you might get. But what do you do when your anxiety
0:14.6	seems like it's at a 10 out of 10 every single day? This is episode 4.07 of the
0:18.8	Hardcore Health Health Podcast. My name is Dr Robert Duff. I'm a
0:21.9	clinical psychologist from Southern California and today I have a question and answer episode for you.
0:26.0	The first question today is from somebody who is struggling really bad with anxiety to the point that they're dissociating from reality and they're having a hard time with their functional skills like going to work or going to the grocery store.
0:37.0	So I give them some immediate tips and things that they can focus on right now as well as some hope for the future?
0:43.0	And for the second question we have something a little bit different.
0:46.0	Somebody who feels that their career path might not be sustainable for them,
0:49.0	and they're thinking about going back to school to pursue a different career path,
0:52.0	something a lot of us can relate to.
0:54.5	So make sure that you're subscribed and let's jump into it.
0:57.0	Hello friends of all varieties, thank you very much for joining me.
0:59.7	I hope that you're doing well.
1:01.3	Please remember that you can send me questions or topics for the show.
1:04.6	Also, guests, if you have people that you'd like me to talk to,
1:07.5	to my contact page.
1:08.6	Dufth the psych.com slash contact
1:10.4	is where you could find all of that,
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