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You're listening to the Recovery Happy Hour Podcast. Hi guys and welcome to Recovery Happy Hour where we talk about what happens

after we get sober and what lies beyond the bottle. I'm your host Tricia

thanks for joining me today. I want to talk

about anxiety. You know we use that term anxiety very casually but what I'm focusing on today is

disordered anxiety or the anxiety that goes beyond a general and

healthy feeling of nervousness. We can think about anxiety a couple of different ways. By itself,

anxiety is the fear of imminent danger, like something bad is about to happen.

It's a survival mechanism inside our brain.

It's also referred to as fight or flight response.

So what happens when you feel a threat of danger is your body's natural defense mechanism releases large amounts of adrenaline and neuroepinepinepphrine into your body to prepare you to either run or fight.

It's actually a pretty brilliant thing. But with anxiety

disorders, what starts happening is your brain is having a fight or flight

response due to this fear of something bad about to happen,

except it's happening when there's no real danger.

It's an inappropriate response.

Phobias are a big trigger.

PTSD, feeling overwhelmed with the project, getting into an argument

with a loved one. There are lots of triggers that can cause an anxiety attack, but the common

pattern here is that you're thinking your brain into

panic. There's no actual threat in front of you and this is why it is so hard to

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