Hey what's up guys Drew here that anxiety guide.com today we're going to talk about the

topic of how other people in our lives our significant others our friends and our families, how they can get involved,

how they can understand, what's going on with us, and how they can help.

But this probably isn't a video that you think it's going to be. So this isn't a go grab your husband or wife and sit them down and watch this with you.

I'm not going to tell them what they should do when you have a panic attack. I'm not going to talk about any of that stuff.

It's going to be something that you probably don't expect, but I feel really strongly about this,

and I think it's something that we all need to hear.

So, this video was prompted by a couple of posts in the Facebook discussion group and if you're not in the group I will link it in the video description if you're on YouTube and if you're listening as a podcast go to my website that anxiety guide

com I'll have a link there you should join the group it's a good bunch of people

so earlier in the week we had a couple of posts in the group where people were

specifically talking about how their anxiety problems are impacting their

relationships with people close to them. One person was talking about their mom, I think

the other person was talking about, I think their relationship with their entire family, kind of, you know,

immediate family. And the topic came up, but people generally ask, they did this weekend, but I get the question all the time, like,

how come nobody understands? What can I do to get them to understand

And I think the first thing I'm going to say which may ruffle some feathers but it needs to be said is you need to really kind of define what you mean when you say that you want your friends and your family to understand.

Do you want them to actually understand what you're going through or are you looking for them to be okay with what you're going through? There's a big

difference and it's important that you really kind of look at yourself and ask

yourself that question, what do I really want from my husband or wife boyfriend

girlfriend whatever it happens to be mom dad

what do you want from these people if you're just looking for them to be

sympathetic and sort of understand what's going on

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