EP 0030 - Anxiety 101 / Lesson 5 – Avoiding Avoidance

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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🗓️ 18 July 2017

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Lets talk about avoidance and safety behaviors and how they're a bad thing when it comes to dealing with anxiety and panic issues. Avoidance and safety rituals reinforce the mistaken belief that you need to be "saved" from your anxiety. We contract this with the use of positive coping techniques that help teach you that you're in no real danger to begin with. My Links https://theanxioustruth.com/links Intro/Outro Music: "Afterglow" by The Ben Drake Collective. Used with permission...

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0:00.0	Okay, we're live.
0:02.0	Hey guys, Drew here, that Anxiety Guide.com, back again for another episode with Billy from Anxiety
0:07.0	United in the UK.
0:08.0	Hello again.
0:09.0	How's it going, Bill?
0:10.0	Oh good.
0:11.0	Those of you who watched their last video, I'm going to say it right up front
0:12.8	will notice that I'm wearing the same shirt.
0:15.1	And Bill, because we're doing these back to back.
0:17.8	And my friend Billy was smart enough to get up and change.
0:20.0	That is ingenuity right there.
0:22.3	Yes.
0:23.0	If I had another shirt in the office, I might have done the same.
0:25.0	So today, today we're going to do the next topic in, we've been podcasting on an article that I wrote many years ago,
0:32.0	it's sort of an anxiety 101 thingon-one thing.
0:33.0	We'll link it in the description, wherever you're listening,
0:35.0	go read the article.
0:36.0	Today we're going to talk about avoiding avoidance.
0:38.0	We'll talk about safety behaviors and avoidance behaviors
0:42.0	and what they are and why they are bad.
0:45.0	Where do we stop?
0:46.0	And where the big blur is between a good thing,
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