Hello everyone, I'm Adele Dupont. Welcome once again to the men's room where we discuss

everything men today. We're going to discuss anxiety. I'm joined as always by my sidekick

Mr Rory Jennings, how are you, Rory? Good. Yeah, I was better until I was referred to

as a sidekick, but yeah, I'm a sidekick on your YouTube channel. You're a sidekick to

me on the men's room. It's a power play. It's a power play. It's a power play, as long

as I can. Why don't you sit in the green chair? You've got all the power, as you know. We're

also joined by Psychotherapist, author and podcaster Joshua Fletcher. Josh Howey, man. I'm

doing well. Thanks for having me on. This is an interesting topic because I think it's

going to go to so many different spaces and places. Anxiety, describe it. What does it

mean? I mean, it's a word that covers a lot really. One person's anxiety is not the

same as someone else's. A really helpful distinction that I like to make is you split anxiety

into two. You've got your conventional anxiety, which is I'm worried about my job interview

and exam, first day, a medical test, anxiety that everyone can relate to. But then you've

got the other side of anxiety that needs more attention to being brought to it a bit

like what we're doing today. This is the inwards kind of disordered anxiety stuff. This

is when we have panic attacks, struggle with intrusive thoughts. When we avoid doing

stuff, when we constantly ruminate our days dictated by what if thoughts, I should thoughts.

And we have strange symptoms, heart palpitations, dissociation, really, really sticky anxiety.

So when one person says, you know, or, you know, I'm struggling with anxiety for me as

a therapist. I'm someone who's been there as well. I was diagnosed with severe anxiety

years ago. I'd want to know what kind of anxiety you're struggling with. And I'll talk

about that today. It's good that he's split it into, isn't it? Because I think the first

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