ANXIETY: Morning and Night (Episode 012)
Disordered: Anxiety Help
Josh Fletcher and Drew Linsalata
4.9 • 665 Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
This week on Disordered, Drew and Josh dive into two very popular topics in the anxiety community. The dreaded morning anxiety and the equally dreaded night anxiety.
Many people struggling with anxiety disorders will lament the fact that they experience elevated levels of anxiety in the morning or at night (or sometimes both) and will insist that this is special or different and there must be specific interventions for that "kind" of anxiety. This is understandable although generally misguided. This episode talks about the ins and outs of morning and night anxiety, looking at basic concepts that govern how each is approached. As usual, the guys both share some of their own experiences with anxiety, both in the morning and in the evening.
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| 0:00.0 | And then I would have this moment where like, that's it, I'm up. |
| 0:04.5 | Full consciousness would kick in and I'd be aware of it. |
| 0:07.3 | And immediately I would become aware of like how I felt. |
| 0:11.4 | You know you've got morning anxiety when as soon as you open your eyes, |
| 0:15.4 | you compulsively check and scan how you feel, |
| 0:18.5 | feeling hypersensitive to everything, |
| 0:23.4 | to dread about the day, to dread about how I'm going to cope. I was looking for it the night before. Before I would go to sleep, |
| 0:27.8 | I was worried about what was the next morning was going to be. Nighttime people are a bit different |
| 0:32.0 | because you hear these common worries like, what if I sit with myself and have to experience |
| 0:37.3 | the sensations and the scary |
| 0:39.0 | thoughts? The sun's gone down. It's something to do with the darkness that makes me feel |
| 0:44.0 | anxious because it's just become a thing. You've just attached unnecessary symbolism to it. |
| 0:52.6 | Welcome back to Disordered. This is episode 12 entitled Anxiety, Morning and Night. I am Drew |
| 0:59.7 | Lin Salata, co-host of Disordered, a grad student in clinical mental health counseling and a therapist |
| 1:04.7 | in training here in the United States. Today we're going to talk about the fact that people |
| 1:08.4 | who get anxiety at night are definitely the coolest people. |
| 1:12.8 | Nonetheless, the morning anxiety will be represented by my co-host. |
| 1:17.7 | Josh Fletcher. How are you doing, Josh? |
| 1:19.3 | I'm all right. Yeah, I'm Josh Fletcher, also known as Anxiety Josh, on social media. |
| 1:24.6 | And I'm a psychotherapist based in Manchester in the UK. |
| 1:28.3 | Also previous sufferer as well and I will be representing the morning anxiety crowd today |
| 1:35.3 | which you have scientifically been proven to be more attractive than people who get night time anxiety. |
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