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Oh, Loh how welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast. In today's episode, I want to talk

about stress that's in the world news and I want to help everyone distinguish the difference

between fear and anxiety.

And what I did is I have I took some notes from a talk that I listened to by Peter

Bregan I follow him and I've read a number of his books and I'm actually going to put a

link to one of his books in the show notes. Peter Bregan MD he's a

psychiatrist and the title of the book I'm going to link to is guilt, shame, and anxiety.

That's well worth reading.

It's a pretty good book.

And Peter, even though he's a psychiatrist,

he has a very individual view of mental illness and how we can deal with our own health

and wellness and our own mental state. So one of the things I jotted down was

that anxiety is never real. Now that's kind of an interesting thing to think

about like fear is real. We have things, we can feel fear and we need to deal with that, right? We look around our circumstances circumstances what there's something wrong I'm feeling fear and

Anxiety in and of itself is beyond that it's fear that is almost not real like a ghost it's elusive you can't

really put your finger on it and it's usually about something deeper, right? When we are struggling

with anxiety, we're not particularly having anxiety. It's not about the storm or the traffic jam or the virus or whatever.

That was what the fear is about. The fear is about a storm coming. How do I prepare? What do I do?

And so forth. But the anxiety is deeper. It's set off maybe and brought to our attention and ramped up by the storm or the

traffic or the virus or the news but that is not the absolute issue at hand. We have fear and we deal with what is in front of us,

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