Anxiety Recovery: Monitoring Mundane Moods (Episode 63)
Disordered: Anxiety Help
Josh Fletcher and Drew Linsalata
4.9 • 665 Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
When working through the process of chronic or disordered anxiety recovery many will find that at some point they are fixated on or have become a bit obsessed with monitoring and evaluating their mood.
This week on Disordered Drew and Josh take a look at why recovering and anxious people tend to get stuck in "mood monitoring mode". Generally speaking, the issue here is the belief that mood is an important indicator of recovery progress or status, or that mod is a predictor of doom or certain downward spiral. Little room is allowed for the natural ebb and flow of mood that all humans experience organically every day.
If you find that you're always monitoring your mood to check to see if you're feeling "right" or if you're OK, this episode may shed some useful light on the topic for you, so tune in.
As always, some successes are shared by members of the community, and the guys answer a question about compulsively consuming anxiety and mental health content and seeking the "miracle cure" for an extended period of time.
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| 0:00.0 | People can become fixated on or a little bit obsessed with monitoring their mood. |
| 0:05.0 | Anything that's neutral or low, Brett response kicks in and I have to try and do something about that or figure out why I'm feeling this way. |
| 0:11.0 | Or I need to hit the mood that feels just right. |
| 0:14.0 | People with panic disorder in GAD, you might be checking to see if it's gone away. |
| 0:19.0 | Negative expression of mood or affect was punished |
| 0:23.1 | or pushed away. What unites them all though as well though is that the threat response has |
| 0:28.5 | decided that a less than optimal mood has become a threat and therefore we must keep an eye on it. |
| 0:35.4 | When you've gained the awareness that you're doing it, you're already starting to move in a good direction. |
| 0:40.3 | Anxiety recovery is not measured by the absence of bad feelings. |
| 0:46.3 | It's your ability to tolerate their existence. |
| 0:52.3 | Welcome to Disordered. This is episode 63 of the podcast, and this is the alliteration episode entitled Monitoring, Mundane. |
| 1:02.8 | I am Drew Lin-Salada. I am a therapist in training specializing in anxiety and anxiety disorders in New York, in the US of A. |
| 1:09.9 | I'm an author, a podcast, an educator, |
| 1:11.8 | an advocate in this community, and a former sufferer of anxiety disorders and depression for |
| 1:16.9 | many years of my life on and off. |
| 1:19.8 | I'm Joshua Fletcher, also known as anxiety Josh. I'm a psychotherapist based in the UK who specializes |
| 1:26.8 | in working with anxiety disorders on |
| 1:28.8 | previous sufferer podcast co-host and author of the book and how does that make you feel |
| 1:34.0 | and a good book it is welcome dude hi drew how you doing i'm good i feel like we haven't recorded |
| 1:40.2 | one of these in a long time like two weeks yeah no we, no, yeah, two weeks off. I've missed you. |
| 1:44.8 | I've missed you. Oh. That's so simple. That feeling will slowly dissipate, well, rapidly |
| 1:50.2 | dissipate. I'll give you about 45 seconds before you cannot wait to get up. Oh, yeah. Okay, so today |
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