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

EP 0047 - Chap 7 : Hope And Help For Your Nerves (Cure of Recurring Nervous Attacks)

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

🗓️ 26 November 2017

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Holly and I discuss chapter 7 of Hope and Help For Your Nerves by Dr. Claire Weekes. This chapter really focuses on understanding that you are afraid of how you feel, and that focusing on sensations and symptoms is counter productive. Rather, focus on how you react to those sensations and symptoms. Don't add what she calls "second fear" to that initial flash of "first fear". My Links https://theanxioustruth.com/links Intro/Outro Music: "Afterglow" by The Ben Drake Collective. Used...

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0:13.8

We are recording what's up everybody Drew here that anxiety guide dot com back with holly how's it going holly yeah pretty good good pretty good so um it's the day of the Thanksgiving here in the u.s I just got done doing like an hour with Billy, and now I'm going to do some time with you,

0:15.2

and it's a podcast day for me.

0:16.5

So we're going to do, for those of you following along with us,

0:20.7

reading hope and help for your nerves,

0:22.4

or what's your version of it called you

0:23.8

have the different self-help for your nerves if you're following along the book with us we are

0:28.5

up to chapter 7 which is cure of the oh it's backwards never mind cure of recurring nervous attacks

0:36.2

So that that's a chapter we're gonna go over today and we usually start every one of these with like this is a big chapter we say it on every chapter.

0:45.2

Oh this is an insignificant this is an insignificant. You know admittedly I'm going to say this one might be there are some really

0:51.8

important things about first

0:53.0

fear and second fear in this but I'm not going to call it like the most

0:56.9

important chapter of the book because she just kind of goes through a bunch of

0:59.6

symptoms it's kind of like the same as the chapter before in a way a little bit. Yeah. I think the one before we were you know we talked about truly accepting and floating and facing and all that stuff and this I think she starts to put it into practice.

1:13.0

All right well you have to do it with the palpitations or skin you know blah blah blah blah blah

1:17.0

she goes through those but... That's important because lots of people do so like I get

1:21.1

the theory but how right how do you do it or or those specific questions like I understand I have to

1:26.8

accept but how can you accept like skipped heartbeats or how can you accept nausea blah blah blah so we'll go through it my screen just

1:34.3

blacked out on me okay so chapter 7 cure of recurring nervous attacks the

1:39.7

first thing that I highlighted was for me under the panic spasms as already mentioned

1:45.9

fear can produce a state of constant tension or it can take the form of intense

1:49.8

recurring spasms and she calls them spasms of panic.

1:53.8

Yeah.

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