EP 0094 - Anxiety and Trauma Responses Are Normal! - w/Monique Koven
The Anxious Truth - A Panic, Anxiety, and Mental Health Podcast
Drew Linsalata
4.9 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
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Too often, the responses that result from anxiety disorders and/or traumatic experiences are classified as mental illness. We talk about anxiety disorders and post-traumatic stress disorder. That word - "disorder" - leads many people to believe that they are broken, damaged, abnormal, or ill. The word "disease" is thrown around, leading to additional despair and distress.
It's important to understand that the sensations, thoughts, and feelings you are experiencing, are a NORMAL part of being human! These are learned responses resulting from your past experiences. Feeling afraid or anxious is normal and to be expected. Why then, do we call these illnesses and disorders? Fear-based responses to anxiety and trauma may be driving your life in directions you do not like. Recognizing these responses as simply learned responses can help provide the confidence you need to start to make changes.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey what's up dudes and doets Drew here from the anxious truth. Join again, once again, it's been a while, |
| 0:15.2 | my friend Monique Kovan, all the way |
| 0:17.3 | from the Great White North. |
| 0:18.4 | You're not that far north, though. |
| 0:20.1 | No, not that far. |
| 0:21.3 | My neighbors, kind of. Sorta, as close as you could be with being a different country. |
| 0:25.1 | Anyway, as those of you who have seen Monique's smiling face on my podcast before, |
| 0:29.9 | know her. |
| 0:30.9 | Otherwise, we'll go over some of a little bit about you I think at the end but |
| 0:34.7 | basically Monique what's everybody where to find you Monique is a CPTSD coach certified |
| 0:40.9 | and all that stuff and we have done a bunch of these together and they're always good and everybody loves them and I enjoy doing them so here we are. |
| 0:47.0 | Great, I'm glad to be here. Yes on a Saturday morning. What are we going to talk about? |
| 0:52.0 | We're going to talk about? |
| 0:53.0 | We're going to talk about, I think, generalizing anxiety disorder, PTSD, and whatever other diagnosis and labels that we want to talk about and how they are sort of given this name of disorder at the end. |
| 1:15.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:16.0 | And how that word disorder really changes a lot |
| 1:20.9 | for people, automatically with that word disorder. |
| 1:23.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:24.7 | We start to feel different about what's happening for us. |
| 1:27.3 | Yeah, I think you're right. |
| 1:28.7 | Like we talked a little bit about this when we came up with the topic and I think you came up with |
| 1:32.0 | with the topic. |
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