Anxiety And The Holiday Season (Episode 39)
Disordered: Anxiety Help
Josh Fletcher and Drew Linsalata
4.9 • 665 Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
This week Josh and Drew are talking about anxiety related to the holiday season. This time of year presents extra challenges for people in our community, regardless of which holidays you celebrate, and even if you don't celebrate any holidays! Let's take a look at the added pressures of the holiday season, how that's likely to show up for an anxious person, the need to remain aware of this impact, and why sometimes faking it until you make it can make a difference!
As always, we're talking about being kind to yourself and being patient with yourself. Craig The Critic loves getting loud during this time of year, so resisting the urge to join in with his nonsense is something you can work on doing for yourself. This time of year can be challenging, but you can handle it. You always do.
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| 0:00.0 | Around any holiday, but particularly in the dark, cold months of winter, the holiday season really did kind of make me feel a bit worse. |
| 0:09.9 | The added pressure of gathering and family when I was doing the hard lifting my recovery work in the middle of a holiday season, and that was hard. |
| 0:18.2 | You can't really escape it because it's around you, shopping, online, scrolling. You can't really escape it because it's around you. |
| 0:20.8 | Shopping, online, scrolling, you can't really escape it. |
| 0:24.4 | Failing as a dad in the holiday season, that would weigh on me. |
| 0:28.2 | The need to do those compulsions may feel more tempting at this time of year. |
| 0:32.4 | There's so much that can really rub your face in it. |
| 0:35.2 | I would just hibernate for seven days or 10 days, |
| 0:39.3 | and then January 2nd would be the worst day of the year for me every year. It is not failure |
| 0:46.1 | if you are anxious around the time of year. Welcome to Disordid. This is episode 38 entitled Holiday Season Anxiety. I'm Joshua Fletcher, also known as |
| 1:01.7 | Anxiety Josh, and I'm a psychotherapist and author based in the UK, and I am proud to be |
| 1:09.9 | co-host of this wonderful podcast. And I am Drew Linzalata. I am proud to be co-host of this wonderful podcast. |
| 1:13.1 | And I am Drew Linsalata. |
| 1:14.4 | I am a graduate student in clinical mental health counseling, |
| 1:16.9 | almost a licensed therapist in New York here in the U.S. |
| 1:20.4 | I'm a former sufferer of anxiety and anxiety disorders and depression for many years |
| 1:24.6 | and a podcast or an author and on the subject. |
| 1:30.7 | And here with my buddy Josh to talk about holiday season anxiety. Welcome, |
| 1:35.8 | everybody. Big topic. If you're a regular listener of the show, we like to celebrate the community wins through submissions on disorder.fm. And here's a good one that sets us up nicely |
| 1:41.7 | for today's episode. |
| 1:46.1 | Yeah, we're going to start with this one, right? Let's do it. |
| 1:50.2 | Come on. Hang on. DJ Drew is having a problem. |
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