700: Loneliness, Covid and Health Anxiety
The Anxiety Coaches Podcast
Gina Ryan
4.6 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2021
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode, Gina discusses a listener question about loneliness and its impact on anxiety. Particularly during the last year in which we have experienced the COVID pandemic, loneliness and health anxiety have become major factors in many people's wellness and overall experience. Listen in for tips from Gina on how to best address these issues and start feeling better today!
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https://www.mindbodygreen.com/articles/difference-between-loneliness-and-being-alone
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/talking-emotion/202004/being-alone-vs-being-lonely
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast, a relaxing and informative show where we explore |
| 0:13.1 | anxiety, panic, and PTSD, sharing how you can overcome them for life. |
| 0:20.1 | Aloha, welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast. |
| 0:28.2 | In today's episode, I want to talk about loneliness and COVID loneliness in particular and |
| 0:35.7 | health anxiety because it's all coming to a head. |
| 0:39.4 | We've been in this COVID time for over a year now and so we're looking at it from new |
| 0:45.9 | eyes. |
| 0:46.9 | And what I have for you today is an email that was asking some questions around this. |
| 0:52.8 | So I thought it would be good to share with everyone with the writers, permission of |
| 0:58.4 | course. |
| 0:59.4 | And so we're going to read another email today. |
| 1:02.7 | And this one, strangely enough, is from Karen, a different Karen, but Karen again. |
| 1:08.9 | And so I'm going to read the email and then I want to go through it, point by point, |
| 1:14.4 | because there's a lot here that I can address because I get emails a lot about different |
| 1:20.7 | health anxiety, COVID, loneliness, and this question that came up really gave me an opportunity |
| 1:26.7 | to tie it all together for you. |
| 1:29.1 | So here we go, here's the email from Karen. |
| 1:33.0 | Hi, Gina. |
| 1:34.5 | I'm struggling with something lately that I'm wondering if there is a way to address |
| 1:38.9 | it on your podcast. |
| 1:40.6 | I have been working from home for a year. |
| 1:43.5 | I have not done anything with friends or family and the isolation is really starting to |
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