EP 114 - The Paradox Of Seeking Certainty And Safety

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

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🗓️ 8 July 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Here is a paradox. So much of this anxiety complex revolves around a desperate attempt to find 100 percent iron clad certainty. The search for certainty in the face of irrationally perceived threats destroys your ability to handle uncertainty in the face of real challenges and threats. The search for safety undermines the very thing you seek ... For Full show notes on this episode, visit https://theanxioustruth.com/114 My Links: https://theanxioustruth.com/links Send in a question or commen...

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0:00.0	1.14.14. This is episode 114 of the anxious truth. Welcome back,
0:21.8	dudes, duets, and all sentient beings, a varying and fluid gender that come in peace.
0:29.4	I hear you and I see you.
0:32.2	Pull up a chair. Let's talk about the idea of seeking certainty in the world
0:38.0	where none is ever going to exist. How this premise fits into the whole anxiety thing.
0:45.0	Where is it in your anxiety disorder?
0:47.0	How is it fueling your anxiety?
0:49.0	How is it making things worse?
0:50.0	And we're going to look at the paradox of why seeking certainty and looking for that
0:56.1	100% ironclad guarantee that bad things won't happen actually makes it harder for you to assess real existent real life true
1:09.6	threats in the world so the search for certainty is actually self-defeating.
1:16.0	When we search for certainty in an irrational way, as we tend to do when we're in the grips of an anxiety disorder,
1:22.0	we're literally eroding our ability
1:24.8	to handle true real life actual uncertain situations that require our attention and our
1:31.2	action.
1:32.2	Right, so let's get into this.
1:34.0	Before we do, I'm going to do the 15 second version of like book advertisement,
1:38.0	the Anxious Truth.com slash recovery guide.
1:41.0	I am proud of this book, I'm sorry. I just am just based solely on the feedback that I'm getting from the people who are reading it and digging it and using it and it's helping them.
1:50.7	Yeah, check it out. It's essentially everything you have ever heard me say on
1:55.3	social media on a podcast and all these different channels except much deeper in detail
2:00.4	and organized in logical sequence like a course in recovering from an anxiety disorder.
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