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The Anxious Truth - A Panic, Anxiety, and Mental Health Podcast

EP 0021 - Chap 2: Hope And Help For Your Nerves (How Your Nervous System Works)

The Anxious Truth - A Panic, Anxiety, and Mental Health Podcast

Drew Linsalata

Anxiety Attacks, Anxiety, Anxiety Disorders, Health Anxiety, Agoraphobia, Anxiety Help, Panic Attacks, Health & Fitness, Panic Attack, Ocd, Mental Health

4.91.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2016

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Holly and I review chapter 2 of Claire Weekes' Hope and Help For Your Nerves. We discuss the fight or flight response, its involuntary nature, and the idea that your panic and anxiety symptoms are normal, natural, not dangerous, and not to be feared. You cannot stop your body from doing what it's designed to do, but that you can change the way you interpret and react to your panic and anxiety symptoms. My Links https://theanxioustruth.com/links Intro/Outro Music: "Aft...

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0:00.0

Okay, we're live. Hey guys, Drew here, that anxiety guide.

0:03.9

We're back for another episode with my good friend Holly coming all the way to us from

0:08.0

myorka.

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Not sound bad.

0:11.0

You can get the mopets going by maybe I don't know.

0:15.0

So for those of you that did not see our first little installment in this

0:20.0

we are taking hope and help for your nerves which is like the gold standard in all

0:25.1

panic disorder and I think anxiety disorder books or beginner books anyway by

0:29.3

Dr. Claire Weeks and we are going to go through the book chapter Holly and I together and we hope

0:36.3

that you're going to grab a copy of the book or an audio copy or whatever it happens to be and

0:40.0

follow along with us.

0:41.0

So Holly this week we're going to talk about chapter two.

0:43.5

And all the chapters in the book are really short.

0:45.5

This one is super short.

0:46.4

Super short.

0:47.4

Literally like a five minute read, tops.

0:50.3

And the chapter two is called how our nervous system works and Dr. Weeks goes through the basics of how our nervous system makes us feel the way we feel when we are having experiencing anxiety and panic.

1:02.0

So she talks about the fight or flight response. are having experiencing anxiety and panic.

1:03.0

So she talks about the fight or flight response

1:05.2

and how that all works and what's voluntary

1:07.4

and what's involuntary.

1:08.2

So I guess let's go through it.

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