Welcome to this Jungian life.

Three good friends and Jungian analysts, Lisa Marciano, Deborah Stewart and Joseph Lee,

invite you to join them for an intimate and honest conversation that brings a psychological perspective to important issues of the day.

I'm Lisa Marciano and I'm a youngian analyst in Philadelphia. I'm Joseph Lee and I'm a youngian analyst in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

I'm Deborah Stewart, a youngian analyst on Cape Cod.

And today we are going to be excavating this notion of anxiety and

we're going to be doing it through a youngian lens.

So I think all of us have a sense of what it feels like to be anxious, and I also think that

we all know that there are tremendous gradations of anxiety,

everything from just a little nagging nervousness up

to people feeling like they're shaking

or their bowels are evacuating or that they're crying or perhaps even at the far end passing out or dissociating because the anxiety gets so hot.

You know, I think fear and anxiety are different. You do? Yeah, yeah, how do you do? How do you differentiate? So, um, so anxiety I think is sort of like a low level, you know, sort of like a background feeling of just discomfort and

edginess. I mean, I'm not saying it's not really uncomfortable.

But I think that fear is something different that comes with kind of like a program for action.

You know, like when you're afraid you can, I mean just think about the difference between your home alone and you know your spouses out of town and you hear a window break and someone

reached through and open the door. That's fear, that's not anxiety. I'm thinking about things like panic attacks, however,

and I would put that in the category of fear.

That the system is adrenaline overtaken person is shaking

feels often like he or she is her life

as at risk and going to die of how will I live through this but I do

differentiate sometimes fear from anxiety in that fear is external, you know, like the saber-toothed tiger is about to

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