Good afternoon, everyone.

As Dr. Niagara again, our next episode of Psychology Unplugged.

Thanks again to all of our listeners.

Truly grateful and humbled by how many people follow our program.

And if I haven't gotten back to you, I'll give you my contact information.

I try to get back to as many people as possible.

A lot of you guys ask sometimes how I come up with the titles for some of the episodes,

and I usually take them from different lines or titles from different very Springsteen music.

So a lot of people have asked like where he come up with things like Streets of Fire,

racing in the streets.

So those you guys who follow the program know my affinity towards Bruce Springsteen,

who hopefully one day I will have the opportunity to meet and sit down in a cocktail with him.

So as you know, I do this program organically.

Julie, just recently is like, can you please sometime during the week, just write something down that you're going to talk about.

That's just not how my mind works.

So today we're going to talk about anxiety. Um, and anxiety and

depression are typically considered the common colds of mental illness. And this is something that

I confront on a daily basis with patients doing diagnostics.

Anxiety in and of itself is not necessarily a pathological state.

You know, part of our autonomic nervous system, the fighter flight response.

Anxiety does serve a purpose in helping us to maintain our survival, maintain a level of

awareness, but it does cross into a threshold where it does become pathological.

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