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

EP 204 - When Does The Anxious "White Knuckling" End?

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

🗓️ 20 April 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

This week on The Anxious Truth we're talking about the concept of “white knuckling” through exposures and through anxiety and fear in general. White knuckling is the term we use to describe the act of holding on tightly and fighting through an exposure or a challenging anxiety experience just to get through it and back to safety. Imagine gripping something so hard that your knuckles turn white. That’s what we’re talking about. I’m often asked when white knuckling ends, so let's ta...

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0:00.0

On this episode of The Anxious Truth, we're going to talk about what it means to white

0:04.3

knuckle your way through an exposure or a challenge, and when you can kind of expect

0:08.2

that to end.

0:09.2

So let's get going.

0:11.2

Hey everybody, what's up?

0:19.6

Welcome back to The Anxious Truth.

0:21.1

This is episode number 204.

0:23.0

Today we're going to talk about the idea of white knuckling your way through exposures

0:27.2

and challenges.

0:28.6

And we're going to answer the question, when does the white knuckling end?

0:31.5

Because it is a question that gets asked a lot in the community, I've heard it more lately

0:35.9

and I thought it would be a good time to address this.

0:38.2

Now before we get into this, I just have to remind you, of course, that The Anxious Truth

0:41.6

is more than just this podcast episode.

0:44.2

There are three really good books and anxiety and anxiety recovery.

0:47.9

There's a free morning newsletter that comes out every week day morning in your email

0:51.8

and is a mini podcast called The Anxious Morning.

0:54.1

And there's just a ton of other podcast episodes and all kinds of social media stuff.

0:58.3

All of which is available on my website at TheAnxiousTruth.com.

1:01.0

So go check that out.

1:02.0

And if you are enjoying this work, it's helping you in some way and you want to help support

1:06.6

it and keep it advertiser and sponsor free.

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