This week on The Anxious Truth, we're answering common questions about anxiety and anxiety disorders sent in by you guys, the audience.

Today we're going to talk about ametophobia.

We're going to talk about nocturnal panic attacks and exposures related to that.

We're going to talk about how concentrating on breathing when you're anxious could be a distraction, or maybe it isn't.

We're going to talk about ruminating.

We're going to talk about externaluminating about ruminating.

We're going to talk about external sources of anxiety and how you might deal with those.

We're going to talk about the fear of becoming suicidal against your will, which is really common in our community. And then I'm going to have a few words about some specific thoughts

or symptoms that people always want to ask about. So thank you for the feedback from

the audience. Let's get into it. This is an absolutely no production, no frills episode of the

Anxious Truth. In fact, if you're on the YouTube channel, you have a still image today. There's no

video. It's just me. I'm the only one that records and produces The Anxious Truth. I don't

have a production team that follows me around. Sometimes my schedule is just a little too much and I cannot fit in

recording and editing video. So today it's me sitting outside in the sun actually, recording into my

phone with one of my other microphones because it's the first 60 degree day we have on Long Island

without 40 mile an hour wind that I'm trying to take advantage.

So no intro, no music, a little bit, no frills.

And we're going to get into questions from the audience.

Who is the one-man show behind The Anxious Truth?

That would be me.

I'm Drew Linzalata.

I am the creator and pre-licensed, still practicing under supervision in the state of New York.

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