#497: The Meaning, Manifestations, and Treatments for Anxiety

The Art of Manliness

Society & Culture, Education, Philosophy

4.7 • 14.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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According to recent statistics, the number of Americans dealing with anxiety disorders is over 40 million and that number is increasing. My guest today is one of those Americans who's suffered from bouts of anxiety all of his life. He’s also a successful journalist. So he decided to use his journalistic chops to explore the history of anxiety and how we treat it in the hopes he could gain more insight about the mental disorder that has plagued him since his youth. His name is Scott Stossel. He’s an editor at The Atlantic and the author of My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind. We begin our conversation discussing Scott’s experience with anxiety that began as a child, what anxiety feels like, and how he’s treated it throughout his life. We then dig into the history of anxiety, looking at how it's been viewed differently through time, and at what point psychologists classified it as a mental disorder. Scott then walks us through the different theories about what causes anxiety and what the research says about the best ways to treat it. We end our conversation discussing the state of Scott’s anxiety today and whether he thinks he’ll ever be cured. Get the show notes at aom.is/ageofanxiety.

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0:00.0	The Bret McKay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness Podcast.
0:11.1	According to recent statistics, the number of Americans dealing with anxiety disorders
0:14.7	is over 40 million and that number is increasing.
0:17.5	My guest today is one of those Americans who suffered from bats of anxiety all of his
0:20.8	life.
0:21.8	He's also a successful journalist, so he decided to use his journalistic chops to explore
0:25.0	the history of anxiety and how he treated it in the hopes he could gain more insight about
0:29.0	the mental disorder that has plagued him since his youth.
0:31.4	His name is Scott Stossel, he's an editor of The Atlantic and the author of My Age of
0:35.2	Anxiety, Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind.
0:38.6	We begin our conversation discussing Scott's experience with anxiety that began as a child,
0:42.5	what anxiety feels like and how he's treated it throughout his life.
0:45.6	We then dig into the history of anxiety, looking at how it's been viewed differently
0:49.0	through time and at what point psychologists classified it as a mental disorder.
0:53.2	Scott then walks us through the different theories about what causes anxiety and what
0:56.2	the research says about the best ways to treat it.
0:58.4	We enter a conversation discussing the state of Scott's anxiety today, whether he thinks
1:02.1	he'll ever be cured.
1:03.5	After the show's over, check out our show notes at aam.is slash age of anxiety.
1:08.0	Scott joins me now via clearcast.io.
1:10.0	Alright, Scott Stossel, welcome to the show.
1:20.8	Thanks so much for having me.
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