This week on the Anxious Truth, we're talking about the intersection between anxiety, anxiety disorders, and neurodivergence issues like ADHD or autism spectrum disorders. So, let's get to it.

Hello everybody. Welcome back to the podcast. Welcome to episode 277 of the Anxious Truth, even though I made a mistake during the interview that you'll hear later and call to 276, it's not. This is episode 277 of the Anxious Truth.

Welcome. I'm Drew Linsellata, creator and host of this fine podcast and YouTube channel if you're watching on YouTube. Hey YouTube.

This week we're talking about the intersection between anxiety, anxiety disorders, and neurodivergence issues like ADHD or autism spectrum disorder. I have a special guest on this week who is pretty experienced with this. Well trained in this, and I trust to talk about it.

It's a question that I get asked all the time. I have ADHD or I am on the autism spectrum, and I don't know what it means for my anxiety or my anxiety recovery. Can I still get better? Can I use these principles? There's this method and our quotes work for me.

So, I have Dr. Terry Bakal with me today. She's a clinical psychologist based here in New York in New York City, not too far from me. Again, she takes a clinical, she takes a CBT approach to anxiety and anxiety disorders, so what she says was down very familiar.

But she also has a particular interest in neurodivergent issues, and she's rubbed elbows with a lot of people who are very well versed in those issues, very well respected in that community and published a lot of really good work in that community.

When it came time to actually address this and answer some of those questions, Terry seemed like the obvious choice to me. So we have her on this week, and before I get into that, just a quick reminder, as always, every week, the answer truth is more than just this podcast episode or this YouTube channel.

There are 276 other videos and podcast episodes that came before this. There are books that I've written on anxiety and anxiety disorders. There are very low cost, I think, pretty affordable workshops and courses.

There's the podcast I do with Josh Fletcher called Disordered. All of those things can be found on my website at the anxious truth.com. So if you're looking for more than just this particular video or you want to know more about this approach to anxiety and anxiety disorders, go to the anxious truth.com, check it out, avail yourself of everything that's there.

People tell me it's helpful. So I'd like to think that it is pretty proud of all that work. And I appreciate the support that all of you have shown me over the years in producing that work. So go check it out.

Let's get to it in this episode again. I kind of messed up. I said that it was episode 276. It's not 277. So if you want to get to the show notes for this episode, it's the anxious truth.com slash 277.

But the interview with Dr. Pakao is really great. We went for about 25 minutes. It is jam packed full of great information from a great source, reputable that I trust. So I think you guys are going to enjoy it.

Whether or not you are dealing with neurodivergent issues for yourself or a loved one or you're just interested in the topic. She was really great.

I'm definitely going to have her back for sure in the future to talk more about this stuff. So let's get to it. And then at the end, I will come back for a wrap up as usual. I hope you enjoy it. Let's get to it.

Hello, Terry. Welcome. Thanks for coming.

They keep it happening.

You're very welcome is taking us a while to get together to do this. But here we are. And we're going to address a topic that I know I get asked about a lot.

And I needed to find somebody that I can trust to talk about this. And you wrote that really most excellent article with this ADHD focused.

And I thought, and I'll put this all in the show notes. By the way, I'll tell you about that later. But I thought if we could talk about that intersection between sort of anxiety recovery and neurodivergence, it would be super helpful.

Absolutely.

Yeah.

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