Hey what's up dudes and do debts Drew here at that anxiety guide.com

Check out the flowers behind me. I'm all about the cinematography today and a fly

just landed right in my microphone. That's funny.

This is the second take.

I recorded this video and I forgot to turn on the microphone.

So now I have to do it again.

All right. So it is July 5th, 2019, and today we are going to talk for a little while about anticipatory anxiety.

This is a video that I have been asked to make for a while and recently it's come up again

and I'm starting to understand what a big topic and how important it is to a lot of people.

The sun is baking me, I may sweat a little bit, but that's fine.

So let's talk about anticipatory anxiety.

The first thing I want to do is sort of give the overview of what it's all about.

You know what it is if you're asking about it.

When you have something coming up, you're going to do an exposure,

you have an event to go to, whatever it is, that's coming up, whether it's in five

minutes, five hours, five days, or five months.

When you think about it and you know that you have to do it and you feel like you can't get

out of it, your anxiety goes through the roof.

You may even have panic attacks about it.

That's anticipatory anxiety.

You are anticipating an event.

So there's no mystery there.

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