EP 185 - Finding Happiness After Anxiety: Step-By-Step

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

🗓️ 8 December 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

"Why can't I feel happiness and joy?!?!?!" This question gets asked all the time. It's a question I am personally quite familiar with. When we are in the middle of the recovery process, still in the grips of anxiety and fear, we often find that we are unable to experience feelings of happiness, joy, or gratitude, at least not the way we think we should be experiencing them. But really, this is not a matter of being unable to feel happy. This is really a perception problem, a...

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0:00.0	Hey, what's up everybody?
0:10.1	Welcome back to the Anxious Truth.
0:11.5	This is podcast episode number 185, tonight we're talking about happiness and joy, and when
0:17.6	you might reasonably be able to expect those things to come back, and what that process
0:21.8	looks like during recovery.
0:23.2	As I know many of you are asking the question, why can't I feel happy?
0:27.2	Why can't I experience joy?
0:28.2	Is it ever going to come back?
0:29.2	That's what we're going to talk about in this episode.
0:31.4	So I am Drew Lins, a lot of creator and host of the Anxious Truth.
0:34.2	And if you are new here, if this is your first episode, this podcast is all about everything
0:38.3	anxiety and anxiety recovery.
0:40.2	So if you're dealing with panic attacks, panic disorder, agoraphobia, OCD, health anxiety,
0:44.6	social anxiety, this is the place we got you covered here.
0:47.8	And if you are a returning listener and you've been around for a while, thank you.
0:50.8	I appreciate your continued support.
0:52.2	I'm glad you're here too.
0:53.8	Before we get going with today's episode, I just want to remind you that this episode of
0:57.0	the Anxious Truth is brought to you by me because this is more than just a podcast.
1:00.6	There's a bunch of other stuff that goes with it, including these three books that are
1:03.6	up over my left shoulder.
1:05.0	If you're watching the unvideo, I have written three books, not anxiety and anxiety recovery.
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