EP 264 - Anxiety Recovery: When Your Helpers Need Help

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

🗓️ 28 June 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Recovery from an anxiety disorder can impact not only the recovering person, but the people close to them. Sometimes our helpers wind up needing help themselves! When that happens, we may want to be supportive of them, but anxious fear may also turn this into a disaster. Anxiety may tell you that your helper reaching out for help is a nightmare and that the fear, uncertainty, and discomfort you feel about this turn of events means you must insert yourself into the process and try to control...

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0:00.0	The people close to us in our lives who are trying to support us sometimes need their own support.
0:06.3	So today on Episode 264 of the Anxious Truth, we're going to talk about what happens
0:10.8	when your helpers need help.
0:21.8	Hello everybody, welcome back to the Anxious Truth. This is podcast Episode 264.
0:26.0	We are recording in June of 2023, in case you are listening from the future.
0:30.4	I am Drew Linsolata, creator and host of the Anxious Truth.
0:33.1	This is the podcast that covers all things anxiety, anxiety disorders,
0:37.3	like panic attacks and agoraphobia, and OCD and health anxiety, and anxiety recovery.
0:41.9	So if you are struggling with any of those things, this is the podcast for you.
0:45.6	If you, this is the first time you have stumbled upon the YouTube channel of the podcast,
0:49.6	welcome. I hope you find this content helpful and useful in some way.
0:53.0	And of course, if you are a returning listener to the podcast or if you are on the YouTube channel,
0:57.0	welcome back. Thank you for spending another week with me.
0:59.8	So today we're going to talk about what happens when your helpers need help,
1:05.0	because living with and supporting somebody in recovery from an anxiety disorder is a difficult
1:10.8	thing. For those people that love us and support us, sometimes they are also entitled to
1:16.0	support of their own. If they are going to help us, often they need help so that they can help us.
1:22.2	And this is a thing that we have to acknowledge. I think it's not news to anybody.
1:27.6	Sometimes the impact that our anxiety has on the people around us, whether they be romantic
1:32.6	partners, intimate partners, parents, siblings, close friends, whatever it happens to be,
1:37.6	it is impactful. Our lifestyles are impacted. There's a huge amount of restriction and avoidance
1:43.1	and conditions and reliance on other people and they feel that strain, which again, I think is
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