EP 0082 - Stop Reading. Start Doing.

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

4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2019

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Reading, listening to podcasts, watching videos, and otherwise educating yourself about your anxiety disorder is a good idea ...until its becomes a safety and avoidance behavior Ultimately, overcoming an anxiety disorder only happens by DOING, not by reading. So after you've read the book for the fifth time, or you've read 10 anxiety books and want to read an 11th, you must realize that its time to actually put what you've learned into action. There is no lasting progress wi...

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0:00.0	What's up?
0:02.0	Dudes and Dudets. Drew here from the Anxious Truth.
0:05.0	I'm still getting used to the new name.
0:06.0	It's a Saturday afternoon in October 2019.
0:08.0	I'm actually sitting on the beach because it's like extra warm out.
0:11.0	I'm enjoying this.
0:12.0	I want to take a few minutes and talk to you
0:13.8	about something that's been on my mind for the last week or so. And this will be short
0:17.8	maybe five to seven minutes. I want to talk about the difference between reading
0:21.1	about recovery from an anxiety disorder and actually
0:23.8	doing the process of recovery from an anxiety disorder. And I think this is
0:28.1	something that gets confused quite often. People confuse this and let me give you an illustration in my Facebook
0:34.6	discussion group this morning and if you're not in the group follow the link
0:37.4	wherever you are that says my links and from there you can hop over to the
0:41.2	Facebook group enjoy. But this morning in the Facebook discussion group,
0:45.0	one of the members said, she's been doing so good
0:47.4	with her exposures and making progress.
0:49.0	And then, I guess it was yesterday,
0:50.8	she decided to go out and do some of this work, and she got really afraid, and she kind of panicked, and she ran back home.
0:55.0	She got really disheartened by that, because she's been doing great, but she gave into the fear and she ran home.
1:00.0	She escaped. And she knows it's not the way to do it, and that's fine. But she followed that up with,
1:05.6	I don't know what to do now. I feel like I'm right back to square one. The fear is so powerful.
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