EP 0091 - Worry and Worrying

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

🗓️ 15 January 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Worry and worrying are problems that many people struggle with along road to recovering from an anxiety disorder. I'm asked to cover this topic again and again. So ... a few words about worry and worrying. Full notes for this episode can be found at https://theanxioustruth.com/91 Worry is simply thinking. Thinking by itself has absolutely no impact on the real world. Worry, therefore is not protective, predictive or proactive. Worry does not keep you safe from di...

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0:00.0	Hey, what's up dudes and duets.
0:08.0	Drew here,
0:10.0	welcome to episode 91 of the anxious truth truth I'm really happy that you stopped by
0:42.8	today we're gonna talk about worry W O R R R W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W and Worrying. So many people have asked me to talk about this topic. I never would have envisioned five years ago when I started the podcast that I'd be like talking so much about the idea of worry and worrying, but here I am. This won't be super long because there's not a whole lot to say about worrying. It's pretty cut and dry and I think hopefully I'll be able to give you some info that will help you and maybe a direction that you can go into it to address that issue if you are a chronic warrior and if the idea of worry and worrying
0:45.8	is just driving you crazy and just driving you
0:47.9	into a really negative place with respect
0:49.9	to your anxiety and fear problems.
0:52.4	There's not a whole lot to say about it,
0:54.1	but I think what there is to say sometimes
0:56.8	is real, like a revelation to people who hear it.
0:59.4	So I'll throw it all out there.
1:01.6	Let's get rolling. So the first thing I want you to do is to
1:04.9	understand what worry actually is. And I'm just going to give you like really dry
1:11.4	unphilosophical like factual stuff that you're just gonna have to either accept or decide to not accept but it matters
1:19.5	Worrying is just thinking so So thinking is nothing. So thinking does not create
1:25.8	alter change, modify, predict, or otherwise like have an influence in the real world.
1:29.7	It doesn't. Thinking by itself has no influence on reality. What happens in the real
1:36.0	physical world that we inhabit. Thinking by itself is just this amorphous
1:40.8	like electrical biochemical thing that happens in your brain that only you experience
1:45.8	that actually doesn't do anything in the physical universe. And worry is just a form of thinking. That's all it is. Let's compare worry with planning.
1:57.0	Because this is something that confuses a lot of people.
1:59.0	Planning is kind of an informed simulation that's followed by action.
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