EP 0101 - The Selfish Nature of Anxiety and Fear

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

🗓️ 25 March 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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For full show notes on this episode, go to https://theanxiousgroup.com/101 Anxiety disorders are selfish disorders. Anxiety and fear are self-centered and will push their way to the front of the line at all times. When struggling with an anxiety disorder, the selfish nature of the disorder often makes you look selfish and self-centered. The disorder is selfish. You are not. Anxiety and fear drive self-centered behaviors in three ways: Disruption Based on Avoidance Anxi...

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0:16.4	Welcome dudes and Dudettes. It is episode 101 of the podcast. We're onto our next hundred episodes. Let's see how long it takes me to do all those. So today
0:20.2	we're going to talk about the selfish nature of anxiety.
0:24.1	Anxiety being a selfish beast and how it relates to you being selfish or not
0:29.5	selfish.
0:30.6	This was suggested in my Facebook group,
0:33.0	and if you're not in the group, by all means pop in and join,
0:35.3	everybody's welcome.
0:36.1	Just follow the Anxious Truth.com slash links
0:39.1	will get you to all of my social stuff.
0:41.0	They'll be linked to the Facebook group.
0:42.0	If you're not in it
0:42.6	ask to join we'll get you in. So anxiety being a selfish beast. A lot of
0:47.4	people struggle with being looked at as selfish when they're dealing with an
0:52.4	anxiety disorder.
0:54.0	Because anxiety by its very nature is selfish.
0:58.0	It's self-centered. It craves attention.
1:00.0	It craves reassurance. It craves soothing, it manufactures fear that demands to be front and center all the time.
1:08.0	So many people who get wind up in the grips of an anxiety disorder start to look really selfish to the outside world.
1:15.3	To their friends and family, they start to look very different than they used to look.
1:19.0	And selfishness or being self-centered or not caring about other people is a criticism that's often hurled at people who are in that situation.
1:28.0	And it's not necessarily fair because it's not the person that's selfish it's the disorder the disorder is
1:35.5	incredibly selfish it's incredibly self-centered it craves give me give me give me
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