Anxiety ... Without Judgment? (Episode 96)
Disordered: Anxiety Help
Josh Fletcher and Drew Linsalata
4.9 • 663 Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
I hate anxiety and panic. I hate my intrusive scary thoughts. I fear them. Why does everyone keep talking about "not judging". I MUST judge them!
When addressing anxiety disorders, most modern, empirically validated effective treatments involve elements of mindfulness and acceptance. This means learning to experience anxiety without judgment or evaluation. That's difficult, isn't it!
This week the guys are talking about "anxiety without judgment" and what that might look like in common scenarios. Learning to not judge doesn't mean you have to like or want anxiety or fear. It mostly means becoming more aware of the fact that you automatically judge, evaluate, and assess the feelings you experience. If you can see yourself doing that, you have a chance to change that script!
Since this is an episode about judgment, we're also joined by the one and only, Judge Dredd! Well not really. Just highly questionable amateur audio engineering skills and some old movie clips featuring Sylvester Stallone, but maybe a little Stallone is exactly what you need today, right? 😉
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Justin Drew. This is Michelle. I really appreciate your programming. I find it really helpful. |
| 0:11.8 | I'm reading Sally Winston's book, Overcoming Anticipatory Anxiety, and she talks about observing what's |
| 0:17.6 | happening, making no judgments, and then leaving it alone. |
| 0:21.2 | Similar to what you're saying. |
| 0:23.1 | But I'm wondering about the words, making no judgments. |
| 0:26.8 | What does it look like when you are making judgments and what does it look like when you're |
| 0:31.1 | not making judgments? |
| 0:32.8 | Thanks so much for what you do. |
| 0:34.8 | He's a sitting duck out there. |
| 0:36.6 | He knows what he's doing. |
| 0:38.3 | I am the law. |
| 0:40.3 | Drop your weapon. These ones are under arrest. |
| 0:59.0 | Welcome to Disordered. This is episode 96. |
| 1:07.0 | Today we're going to talk about anxiety without judgment. Really good question there and apologies to the backdrop to the 1995 Danny Cannon and Sylvester Stallone movie hit Judge Dredd. |
| 1:22.6 | A film that is utterly terrible objectively, but why have I watched it multiple times? |
| 1:29.6 | I'm Joshua Fletcher, also known as Anxiety Josh. |
| 1:32.1 | I'm a psychotherapist, author, and previous sufferer of anxiety, and I specialize in |
| 1:36.6 | anxiety, podcast co-host, Instagram Prance Arounder, and a person who's really passionate |
| 1:42.8 | about talking about anxiety disorders. |
| 1:45.0 | And I am Drew Linsalada, the guy that produced that ridiculous opening video montage. |
| 1:51.2 | Also a psychotherapist in the U.S. in New York specializing in anxiety and anxiety disorders, |
| 1:55.7 | former sufferer of these very same problems we talk about all the time, but better now. |
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