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

EP 0102 - Fear Of Insanity Or Going Crazy

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

🗓️ 1 April 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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For full show notes on this episode: https://theanxioustruth.com/102 One of the two most common fears of anxiety and panic sufferers is the fear of going insane. Losing one's mind. Going crazy. Many worry that they will "lose it", or "snap" when at the height of panic or extreme anxiety. This is a difficult fear to face, but it remains an irrational fear that never comes true. The fear of going insane or losing one's mind is no different than the fear of dying, o...

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0:00.0

Welcome dudes and duettes to episode 102 of the podcast, 102,

0:15.0

a hundred and two episodes.

0:17.6

This episode is entitled The Fear of Insanity

0:21.0

or the fear of going crazy. It is one of the top two fears reported by anybody

0:26.5

who is dealing with panic attacks in any way. The top two fears that are reported consistently

0:31.6

across the board globally by anybody who is experiencing

0:34.3

panic attacks or high anxiety is number one, death, that a panic attack is literally going

0:38.9

to kill you or harm me physically in some way. Number two, a close second is insanity. And that's a kind of a wide thing,

0:47.1

the whole insanity thing. People are afraid that when they are experiencing very high anxiety or

0:51.4

panic, that they may go insane insane they may lose their mind they may snap they may lose touch with reality

0:57.3

There's a wide range of of things that go along with determine sanity or going crazy if you will.

1:03.2

But we're gonna try and cover those in this episode.

1:05.6

So we're really gonna talk about,

1:07.2

specifically talk about the fear of going crazy

1:09.4

or losing one's mind as a result of being anxious or in a panic.

1:13.4

So the way I want to start this, I don't have a lot to say about this, to be honest with you,

1:18.1

because there's really, the first thing I'm going to say is, the fear of going insane or losing one's mind or losing touch with reality or

1:24.6

snapping or going over the edge however what you want to say we're just going to

1:27.8

say going insane the fear of going insane during a panic attack is no different than the fear of dying during a panic attack,

1:34.7

passing out during a panic attack, you know being ill physically ill during a panic attack,

1:39.5

embarrassing so they're all the same fear. in the end there's really no difference between

1:44.4

that fear than any other fear that you might have connected to anxiety how you feel

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