Anxiety Questions and Answers (Episode 73)
Disordered: Anxiety Help
Josh Fletcher and Drew Linsalata
4.9 • 665 Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Let's do an old-fashioned anxiety question and answer session!
This week Josh and Drew are answering questions sent in by members of the Disordered podcast community. Listen in for answers to the following questions:
- Are we supposed to challenge our beliefs in recovery?
- What about dizziness?
- How do you do recovery when real life happens?
- My health anxiety is "different". Can I use going to the doctor as an exposure?
- I'm very anxious when reminded of a past event that I'm not proud of. Any tips?
- How can I do more so I can be more recovered and not feel anxiety?
- How can be compassionate toward ourselves ... and really mean it?
Of course we also have a few "did it anyways" in this episode to inspire and encourage. Thank you to everyone that sends in questions, shares victories both big and small, or just listens to the podcast every week. Your presence and participation are always greatly appreciated!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Today we are doing anxiety, questions and answers, which we haven't done for quite a long time. |
| 0:04.9 | Do you believe in challenging your beliefs? |
| 0:07.8 | The sensation of dizziness is my most frequently occurring sensation and my most debilitating one. |
| 0:14.0 | When you're suffering from OCD-GAD-type symptoms, how do you cope when real life happens? |
| 0:20.3 | I'm like really scared to go to the doctors, |
| 0:22.4 | so would going to the doctors actually be an exposure for me, or am I just like reassurance seeking? |
| 0:28.1 | I'm really confused. And the anxiety and catastrophizing has been quite debilitating. What are some |
| 0:34.2 | good tips to get back on track and get hold over my anxiety that I previously had? |
| 0:39.3 | I don't know what to do more than I can be more recovered, so I don't have that response. |
| 0:52.7 | Welcome to Disordered. This is episode 73 of the podcast. Today we are doing anxiety questions and answers, which we haven't done for quite a long time. I am Drew Linzalata. I am a therapist practicing under supervision in New York, in the U.S., specializing in the treatment of anxiety and anxiety disorders. I'm an author, a podcaster, |
| 1:12.3 | a psychoeducator, advocate, former sufferer of anxiety and depression for many years in my life, |
| 1:17.0 | but better now, and one of the co-hosts of Disordered. And I'm Joshua Fletcher, also known as |
| 1:23.1 | Anxiety Josh. I'm a psychotherapist based in Manchester in the UK, and I specialize in working with |
| 1:27.9 | anxiety and anxiety disorders. We're co-host of this podcast and author of the book, and how does |
| 1:33.2 | that make you feel? Welcome, Josh. We have a lot to do today. Yeah, let's answer some questions. |
| 1:39.8 | We get lots of people submitting on disorder.fm. Did it anyways and questions, and they'd be piling up. So we thought we'd, uh, we'd answer a few because there's some good questions. A lot of good questions that probably aren't long enough to be whole episodes. So we figure we'll just string a bunch of them together and answer what we can. But before we do, how about we do it did it anyway because it's a really good one and we'll have a little celebration to start the episode. What do you say? Yeah. Here we go. |
| 2:05.1 | Hey, we're you lads. I love the show. My name is Ian. You can use my name if you like. I just want to share a quick data anyway in regards to my sleeping issues. I was suffering with really severe hypnot jerks every time I would try to |
| 2:19.1 | fall asleep. If it wasn't a muscle twitching, it would be my brain jolted me back awake |
| 2:25.0 | when I drifted off. This developed into insomnia, which then developed into sleep anxiety. |
| 2:31.4 | I could not even think about sleep without getting anxious. I was on sleeping tablets as well, just to get me, you know, a few hours sleep. Two weeks ago, I decided enough was enough. I said to myself, I don't care if I sleep or not. I'm actually excited that at the possibility |
| 2:51.4 | that I might be awake |
| 2:52.6 | the whole night. |
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