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anxiety, panic, and PTSD, sharing how you can overcome them for life.

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Today I'm going to be talking about probably the most often asked question, am I going crazy?

Am I going crazy?

This is the question that is asked so often, and it's surely one that I understand completely

because it's exactly how we feel when we are stuck in the fear adrenaline, fear loop.

And the longer we have been in that, and the deeper we are going down the wormhole, the

more it feels like, surely I am not right in my mind anymore, surely I must be going crazy

because it really does feel like it.

So this is one of the questions that people ask the most, both in coaching sessions and

the group coaching calls, and in general, in the Facebook group, the large Facebook group,

they will ask in the emails that they send me, I understand that you all are out there

wondering this question, so I want to talk about it with you, am I going crazy?

And we live in a world right now that has so much emphasis on very minutely teased out

specific mental illnesses, I'm going to say, that DSM-5, I think we're on now, which

is the manual that is used for coming up for a code for all kinds of the mental disorders,

they keep splitting it out more and more and more, there's codes for crying, it's kind

of interesting because what that has done is it's caused people to begin to think that

everything that they're doing is not right, that there is something wrong with their

mind, that they are going crazy.

Just a side note here, the DSM originally was just a very small paper booklet, like really

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