Welcome to That Anxiety Guy, episode 7.

Let's make a plan. Hey, Drew here as always, thanks for stopping by to listen.

Now today let's build on. Hey everybody Drew here as always. Thanks for stopping by to listen.

Now today let's build on what we've learned in some of the last podcast

episodes to create a general plan for dealing with our anxiety issues.

Since we know that anxiety disorders and that includes agorin phobia are

cognitive in nature, we're going to generally ignore the physical symptoms.

We're not really going to talk about much of that today. Instead we're going to

address behavioral and

cognitive issues because really that's what makes the lasting difference.

Focusing just on your physical symptoms as I mentioned in the last episode is

kind of a dead end.

So let's ignore that today.

Stick with me on that.

Now in future episodes we are going to take detail looks at actual tasks and exercises,

really the mechanics of exposure therapy.

But for now, let's take a look at an overall plan and the basic concepts that we're going

to have to follow to get things done.

We're going to lay out five general strategy points and then we're going to put an action

plan in place. So let's get started. Let's talk about strategy point number one. It's all about

goals and expectations. It is all about that.

You have to have the right goals in mind

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