EP 0107 - Forgiving Yourself And Letting Go Of The Past

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

🗓️ 13 May 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Many people are struggling with letting go of anger, guilt and bitterness over time lost to anxiety. Learning to "forgive yourself" can be difficult. While struggling with an anxiety disorder is certainly impactful in a big way, it is possible to learn how to change the habit of blaming yourself and revisiting guilt, anger, or regret over those struggles. It is possible to learn how to leave the past behind us. For full show notes on this episode: https://theanxioustruth.com/107 M...

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0:15.0	Welcome back. dudes and do deaths. This is episode 107 of the Anxious Truth.
0:19.3	Today we're going to talk about the topic of self-forgiveness, forgiving yourself, letting go of anger and regrets
0:26.5	and bitterness, all centered around either time that you feel like you've lost because of anxiety,
0:32.0	or opportunities that you feel like you've lost because of anxiety or opportunities that you feel like you've lost due to anxiety or maybe things that have happened in your life and especially in relation to your friends and family because of your anxiety.
0:42.0	Many, many people that I really wasn't paying attention to to be
0:44.9	honest with you until it came up in the Facebook group last week and what prompted this particular
0:49.0	episode, this topic, is that there's a lot of people who are even well down the road to recovery.
0:54.8	You know they're working the process things are getting much better for them.
0:57.8	Some people who feel like they're they're 80% there at this point. They're really far down the road.
1:02.0	But they're still struggling
1:03.8	with this idea of they're consumed with not being able to get over the time that
1:10.7	they lost or the opportunities that they've lost or the things that maybe
1:14.1	they did while they were still struggling with an anxiety disorder.
1:17.6	So even for people who were down the road to recovery, this appears to be a bigger issue
1:21.1	than I ever thought that it would be.
1:23.0	And for people who are in the beginning of recovery
1:26.0	or just trying to get that started,
1:28.0	this is an issue also.
1:29.0	So they're still in the grips, and this might be you.
1:31.0	You're still in the grips of the disorder. You know what you in the grips of the disorder you know what you're supposed to be doing you know what you have to do maybe you're kind of coming around to the realization of what it's going to take to fix this problem and you've got that same level of regret or anger or bitterness or you can't forgive yourself.
1:46.0	You're judging yourself really harshly because of the time that you have spent up to this point trying to get better and maybe it hasn't worked out.
1:53.0	So let's talk about this.
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