What's up dudes and doodets Drew here that anxiety guy dot com you've heard it before you'll hear it again

It has been a while since they did one of these but I had a topic come up in the Facebook

discussion group a couple of days ago that I really wanted to spend a few

minutes on because I think it's super important.

And someone in the group, and if you're not in the group by the way, join the group, I'll

put a link in the video description.

Someone in the group asked, how do I talk about my anxiety?

So within the context of going through the process of recovery, this person wanted to know,

how am I supposed to talk about this because I think the concern was people

are tired of me hearing talk hearing me talk about it or people are tired of you know I'm

going to disappoint people by making excuses for why I can't maybe be social with them or

you know engage in group events or whatever it may be whatever is getting in the way

whatever is making your anxiety get in the way of your relationships with your friends and family and

coworkers and whoever it may be how do you talk about that? I think that's a pretty

reasonable question and I think this particular question was rooted in a bit of a

fear of disappointing people,

letting people down, being disliked over it and things of that nature.

But I don't really want to worry too much about that.

Because I want to say two things.

First of all, I think there are many people who are

watching and listening who I understand are coming from a place of maybe not a

lot of confidence or maybe a lot of self-doubt or maybe worrying all the time about how you're perceived and what people are thinking

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