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

EP 0076 - I Feel OK ... And I'm Not Sure What To Do Now (w/Joe Ryan)

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

🗓️ 6 August 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

You've been doing the work. You've been working the process. You're facing your fears and learning not to be afraid of how you feel. You're no longer crippled by panic, fear and anxiety. One day you find that that familiar fear and anxiety is missing. Is this what it feels like to feel OK? What am I supposed to do with this? Where's the anxiety? Should I be happy now? What if it comes back and puts me back to square one? These are questions I hear all the t...

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0:00.0

Okay, what's up everybody Drew here that anxiety guy dot com back for another podcast episode sitting next to me as in the last two episodes my buddy Joe Ryan

0:09.0

Hey Drew what up dude so we're sitting in the conference room again in the echo chamber and we're also

0:15.1

streaming live on Joe's Instagram and we're live in my Facebook group and we're

0:19.8

recording another phone so that's a hell of a lot of cameras we got a lot of technology

0:23.8

here and we are just not afraid to use it so so there you go.

0:27.8

Today I want to talk about what what they came up the other day when you said like suddenly I don't know what to do I'm not feeling I'm not feeling badly what do I do with that?

0:37.8

Yeah, that's just an empty space I'm not used to it. It was weird and I know that's come up in the group, the Facebook group quite a few times.

0:45.0

People will say like I wake up and I'm not sure what to do because I don't feel anxiety and I'm looking for it.

0:50.0

They're not quite sure what to do.

0:52.0

Are you relating

0:54.0

completely I just especially the past week it just kind of hit me where I've just

0:58.1

been doing so much work that I found this space in me where there's not pain or discomfort or anxiety or panic or anything

1:06.4

and I really don't know what to do with it.

1:09.3

It's new.

1:10.3

I sort of thinking like what if, what about people, I mean do people walk around not feeling

1:15.5

anxious all the time what happens if they like that and all of a sudden they get the

1:20.2

anxiety it must hit them like oh my god is this? It's in reverse for me.

1:25.0

All of a sudden I woke up with all this emotional space and I was kind of dumbfounded.

1:31.0

It's like, okay, I can't write, I can't, I got no pain going on. What do I do?

1:35.6

Okay, I could see that being a thing for sure and I've heard people say that a lot.

1:40.1

Like I don't know what to do with this and two things come up like after so much time

1:45.0

of being so keenly aware how they feel all the time.

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