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

EP 0098 - STOP Checking In With Yourself!

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

🗓️ 4 March 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Full show notes for this episode are at https://theanxioustruth.com/98 Telling someone in the grips of a raging anxiety disorder to "check in with themselves" is a TERRIBLE bit of advice. If you are in the grips of a ranging anxiety disorder - finding it near impossible to STOP thinking about how you feel all the time - it's OK to reject this advice. While in the grips of raging disorders like OCD, health anxiety, panic disorder, and agoraphobia, specifically making time to focus inward...

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0:00.0

What is up?

0:01.0

What is up dudes and doeets?

0:10.0

What is up dudes and dudets?

0:12.0

Drew here from the Anxious Truth.

0:14.0

Welcome to episode, what is this?

0:16.0

It's episode 98 of the podcast.

0:18.0

We have two left to get to a hundred.

0:20.0

I'm trying to arrange a special guest to be on the hundredth episode I don't know if it's going to work out but I'm trying but that's good it's going to be in a couple of weeks

0:27.6

So I'm gonna rant a little bit in this one which is fine. I guess you guys are kind of used to me doing that anyway

0:34.3

nothing new here right if you follow me we're gonna today we're gonna talk about the

0:38.3

self-check-in check-in with yourself the advice of checking in with yourself to see how you're doing and and why I said two days ago on social that that is a horrific

0:48.7

idea let me explain that so if you follow me on Instagram, which by the way you should, I'm kind of digging in Instagram. I'm digging to the

0:57.2

Instagram these days, the dot anxious dot truth. If you're listening you don't follow follow along. So I like Instagram lately.

1:04.0

So I posted on Instagram, feeds over to my Facebook too,

1:06.0

so wherever I guess.

1:08.0

I posted about how the self-check-in advice was terrible.

1:11.0

I literally said, stop, stop checking in with yourself stop it's terrible advice I think what I said

1:16.2

literally and credit to to Australia for this you know who you know you are

1:20.0

I literally said this is terrible advice and should be kicked into the sun.

1:24.0

Kicked into the sun just cracks me up, but this person says it all the time.

1:27.0

And it is. It is terrible advice and you should kick it right into the sun, get it out of your life.

1:31.0

The self-check-in is a bad bad bad idea. But let us give

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