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

EP 124 - You Can Overcome Anxiety No Matter How Long You've Suffered

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

🗓️ 23 September 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

I often here people saying that recovery becomes harder - or even impossible - if you've suffered too long with your anxiety problems. This is simply not true. In this podcast episode let's take a look at why this is a misconception that you're going to have to leave behind. There are three main reasons why you can recover no matter how long you've suffered.1. Anxiety disorders are not progressive degenerative diseases that take away your physical or mental abilities over time. &n...

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0:00.0

Welcome back, this is episode 124, dudes and dudettes.

0:18.9

Episode 124 of the Anxious Truth, thanks for coming by, welcome back to the show.

0:24.4

After a little one week hiatus, could not squeeze in the podcast last week, one of the

0:28.2

rare weeks when I did not podcast last week, just a lot going on.

0:31.7

I'll get into that on a later later time, but today, this is episode 124, I'm glad you're

0:36.6

here.

0:37.6

Thanks for taking some time.

0:38.6

As always, today we're going to cover a topic that I think is really interesting.

0:41.8

It came up in my Facebook group as so many do, and if you're not in the group, the

0:45.2

AnxiousTruth.com slash links, you'll see a link to the Facebook group by all means.

0:49.0

Head on over there and ask the joint we'll get you in.

0:51.4

So this came up in the Facebook group with so many things do.

0:54.4

The discussion was about how much more difficult will it be to recover from an anxiety disorder

1:01.4

based on how long you have suffered with that anxiety disorder?

1:05.3

And the way this worked out is a person had said that their therapist told them that the

1:09.3

longer she was a gauraphobic, in this case it was a gauraphobia that she was dealing with,

1:13.8

the longer she was a gauraphobic, the harder it would be for her to recover.

1:18.6

And technically, that is actually not true.

1:22.3

So recovery may look different based on the length of time that you have been dealing

1:27.0

with this anxiety problem of yours, but it is technically not any more difficult for

1:31.5

the reasons that common sense might lead you to believe it would be.

1:35.8

So it's really no more difficult to recover just because you've been dealing with this

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