Anxiety, Caffeine, Alcohol, and Cheeseburgers (Episode 86)
Disordered: Anxiety Help
Josh Fletcher and Drew Linsalata
4.9 • 665 Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Do you have to give up coffee, tea, wine, pizza and cake to recover from an anxiety disorder? Well ... if you ask the Internet and consult general wellness influencers this question you're going to get answers that tend to collide with best practices among well trained therapists and counselors.
No, you do not have to give up your favorite foods and drinks to get better. You may choose to structure your diet and your lifestyle around making overall healthy choices that align with your values and belief. That's always a good thing.
But if you are avoiding things you generally like or enjoy in an effort to micro-manage your body or totally avoid experiencing natural thoughts, emotions, and sensations because you fear them ... this episode of Disordered is for you. It is in fact possible to fully recover from your anxiety disorder while also eating cheeseburgers and drinking wine. These things are not mutually exclusive!
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| 0:00.0 | If you have anxiety, clearly you should not drink coffee. |
| 0:04.5 | I'm like, well, it says who? |
| 0:06.0 | This is where anxiety disorders and general wellness advice become conflated. |
| 0:11.0 | I want you to live like you, like non-anxious you. |
| 0:15.0 | I cannot eat this, I can't eat that, I got to eliminate this, I got to stay with it because it's bad for my mental health. |
| 0:20.0 | Those habits can last, right? And they may have an impact on your life down the road. |
| 0:25.1 | Any good anxiety disorder informed therapist, they don't like avoidance, even if that means |
| 0:30.6 | doing stuff that isn't conventionally thumbsed up. If I change a variable here and there, |
| 0:37.0 | maybe it'll make my anxiety better. |
| 0:39.5 | If not ever smoking again is what your values tell you to do, then that's also okay. |
| 0:45.0 | Well, I'm only doing this because I'm afraid of my own body and mind. That's what we're talking about today. |
| 0:52.8 | Welcome to Disordid. This is episode 86 entitled, Caffeine, Nicotine, Alcohol and Cheeseburgers. |
| 1:03.5 | As you can tell, this is the real stuff that we need to talk about. |
| 1:08.2 | I'm Joshua Fletcher, also known as Anxiety Josh, and I'm a psychotherapist who specializes in anxiety and anxiety disorders. |
| 1:15.2 | I'm based in the UK, author of several books, |
| 1:19.9 | co-host of this podcast, |
| 1:22.9 | sometimes like reading historical fiction, |
| 1:26.2 | and my star sign is cancer. |
| 1:28.7 | And I am Drew Linzalata. |
| 1:30.4 | I am a therapist practicing under supervision in the state of New York, specializing also |
| 1:35.3 | in the treatment of anxiety and anxiety disorders, also an author on the topic, former |
| 1:39.4 | sufferer for many, many years, now better, psychoeducator, advocate, social media dude. I saw David Gilmore last night at Madison Square Garden. That was awesome. And today we're going to talk about alcohol, caffeine, nicotine, and cheeseburgers. I have caffeine right in front of me right now. I mean, it naturally comes to mind when I think of David Gilmore. Why wouldn't it? That's all the, that's all the dude lives on, I think. I'm making it up. |
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