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Aloha, welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast.

In today's episode, I want to talk about something that comes up very often and over all these years that I've been

fielding questions about anxiety I have to say this is one of the common things that people will confide in me.

Often people are not wanting to say this to other professionals or even to family members

or friends, but they will tell me sometimes I feel like I'm

going crazy or sometimes I feel crazy and I know I've said this in the past on the

show that that is their words not mine.

I don't think you're being crazy and I don't think you're going crazy.

But anxiety can make us feel like we are on the brink of madness.

So can anxiety make me go crazy or insane?

I would like to say no, it is not the anxiety that would make a person be in that

kind of state many people have thought that they were going crazy or insane before.

And anxiety will have you think that you're going crazy.

It is an intrusive thought, right?

And it will stick with you.

It'll say, oh, yeah, well, you know,

this is going on, you're not thinking straight,

you're nervous about everything.

And so what I want to say to you is that nobody has ever gone

crazy from anxiety. That's different. If you think you're going crazy or that

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