Anxiety, and the 'worry bully': One of Lynne Malcolm's favourite All in the Mind programs
All In The Mind
ABC Australia
4.5 • 825 Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Anxiety is an essential human emotion—it kicks in to protect us from threats—but sometimes those threats are only perceived. When worries start to become overwhelming, approximately 25 per cent of us experience clinical anxiety. But it is highly treatable. A ten-year-old girl and a 30-year-old man share their anxious thoughts and their strategies to manage them.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an ABC podcast. |
| 0:06.8 | Hi, Lynne Malcolm with you on All In The Mind. |
| 0:10.4 | Today, from our series of highlight programs from my years as host on All in the Mind, |
| 0:16.0 | we bring you a program from 2019, which I'm sure will resonate with you now. We look at anxiety and how to |
| 0:24.2 | manage it. Have you encountered the worry bully? The worry bully is everyone has it. It's this thing |
| 0:31.7 | inside your head that keeps on telling you worries and worries and worries and worries. The more you |
| 0:37.1 | listen to it the stronger |
| 0:38.5 | it gets. |
| 0:39.5 | I used to procrastinate a lot about things which is possibly the worst thing that you can |
| 0:43.5 | do for your worries because you're just putting off those worrying things and then they |
| 0:47.0 | build up and build up and build up. |
| 0:49.1 | I think I'm a bit of a hard marker on myself and I was really surprised with how much my mental state was affecting me physically. |
| 0:57.3 | 30-year-old Peter Leipnik and before him was 10-year-old Willow Freer. |
| 1:02.9 | For both of them, their worries became overwhelming and so they sought professional help. |
| 1:08.8 | We all experience anxiety to some degree because it's part of our primitive survival mechanisms |
| 1:15.2 | in response to threat in our environment. |
| 1:18.5 | So our brain responds, the amygdala hijacks our brain and triggers the fight or flight reaction, |
| 1:23.5 | which is a physiological reaction to set our body up to fight or to run away from danger. |
| 1:29.8 | That response occurs with perceived threat as well. |
| 1:34.4 | Dr Jody Lowinger is a psychologist and CEO of the Sydney Anxiety Clinic. |
| 1:40.8 | Anxiety in a normal context for most human beings, for all human beings, gets triggered in response |
| 1:47.1 | to trying to survive against danger. Where it turns from anxiety into an anxiety disorder is |
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