EP 0099 - The Habit Of Words

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

🗓️ 11 March 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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For full show notes on this episode: https://theanxioustruth.com/99 We naturally develop habits with respect to the way we talk about, think about, and write about our anxiety problems. This is the habit of words, and it matters. Identifying unhealthy and counterproductive habits of words, then working to replace them with more recovery-focused habits is well worth the effort. The most common habit of words is the habit of constantly saying how you feel, what you're afraid of, and how much yo...

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0:00.0	The Welcome dudes and do dudets. Welcome to episode 99 of the podcast 99. So the next one's going to be a big one. It'll be
0:25.9	number 100. I have no idea what I'm going to do. What I thought I was going to do
0:29.7	sort of fell through so I'm going to make it up as I go along like I usually do.
0:33.0	It won't be a problem though it's going to be good.
0:34.8	Okay so this one, episode 99, this one is entitled, The Habit of Words.
0:40.0	And we're going to talk about the way we talk about our anxiety problems.
0:44.6	So when we develop these disorders that I'm always addressing,
0:48.8	panic disorder, agoraphobia, health anxiety,
0:51.6	OCD, that sort of stuff.
0:53.5	We start to develop habits in the way we describe the condition,
0:57.5	the way we talk about the condition.
0:59.2	This involves verbally, overtly to other human beings, silently in our own heads to ourselves, and in
1:05.7	writing on the internet, Facebook groups, forums, things like that.
1:09.6	We develop habits in the way we talk about this problem.
1:13.0	And those habits matter.
1:14.0	These are important things, because the way we talk about it,
1:17.0	it's a big part of how we engage with the disorder, right?
1:21.0	So we need to look at what those habits are and we need to start to
1:24.3	learn how to recognize what our habits of words are in relation to our anxiety and
1:29.6	to know when we're in good habits that promote recovery and when we have developed bad habits that keep us stuck.
1:38.0	So that's what we're going to talk about today.
1:40.0	What I want to get into first is a question. Now I asked this question in my Facebook group a few days ago and I got an avalanche of answers, some of which I didn't expect, so we're going to talk about some of those. But the question is, if you had to sit for a second and pause this
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