EP 0029 - Anxiety 101 / Lesson 4 – Coping Techniques

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

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🗓️ 12 July 2017

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Billy and I discuss the role of coping techniques in dealing with anxiety and panic issues. We touch on breathing, muscle relaxation and meditation techniques designed to quiet the mind on demand. Coping techniques are designed to limit the duration and intensity of a panic attack, not to stop it dead it its tracks. Coping techniques must be learned and practiced all the time in order to build the skills required to use them properly. We also briefly touch on important difference between copi...

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0:00.0	Okay, we're alive again. Hey everybody, Drew here, that anxiety guy.
0:04.3	dot com with you again from with Billy from Anxiety United in the UK. Good morning
0:08.9	Billy. Can you have to be?
0:09.9	Hello there. We're doing the next in our series. We missed last week. So for those of you who asked where we were, we weren't here. Sorry.
0:17.0	So, next series. Yes, life got in the way.
0:21.0	We're doing a series of videos together,
0:24.1	podcast videos about an article that I wrote many years ago. It's kind of an
0:27.6	anxiety 101 thing and we'll both link the article in our video
0:30.7	description or if you're on my website you'll see it and today we're going
0:34.3	to tackle the subject of coping skills and coping techniques and how to use those
0:39.5	when you're in the midst of really high anxiety or even panic.
0:43.0	So it's, and we say this every week, you know, this is a big one, it's a big topic,
0:47.0	they're all big topics.
0:48.0	Yeah, but this is a big one, and most, this is the one that I think most people start to ask about like
0:53.6	so what can I do and this is where we actually start to talk about what can we do?
0:58.3	So let's talk about some coping techniques.
1:00.1	Why don't you kick it off?
1:01.1	What do you got going on?
1:02.1	Okay so I just a point.
1:04.2	I've made a few notes and the top note that I've made is that prevention is better
1:08.8	than a cure or a treatment.
1:10.7	So if you can put these techniques that we are going to discuss into practice,
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