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

EP 283 - Living With Anxiety: Recover to Live, or Live To Recover?

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

🗓️ 17 January 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

LIVING WITH ANXIETY ... I HAVE TO RECOVER SO I CAN LIVE MY LIFE AGAIN! But really, do you? Or is it better to do your best to re-engage in life so that you can recover? This week we're examining the concept of life AS recovery rather than life as something you get to do only after you've reached some magic state of "recovered". Yes, at times recovery from an anxiety disorder involves manufactured exposures and doing things that don't look all that much like a regular life, but...

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0:00.0

This week on the anxious truth, we're going to talk about why it's more important to live to recover

0:07.0

than to try to recover so that you can live, so let's get to it. Hello, everyone. Hello, everybody.

0:13.0

Hello, everybody.

0:15.0

Welcome back to the anxious truth this is episode

0:24.0

number two eighty three of the podcast two a three we are recording in mid

0:28.3

January of twenty four for those of you who are listening from the future. This week we are going back to the

0:34.0

usual podcast episode for a week. For those of you who have been following my

0:37.6

Foundations of Panic series, that's a series that's geared a little bit more toward

0:41.4

the brand new members of this community and for those of

0:43.9

you've been around for a long time and more advanced and recovery, you've been very patient while I do that

0:48.3

series. So this week we're going to go back to some regular programming content. For those people who are maybe down the road a little bit don't need the basic

0:54.9

information if you're here for foundations of panic because you're still new and you're still getting a

0:59.5

grip on all this we'll be back again next week with the next episode in that particular series and

1:03.8

we'll start to mix it up a little bit more but you're welcome to hang around

1:06.2

even if this is a topic that's a bit more advanced for you there's probably something

1:09.9

you can take out of it. So we are here at episode 283. We're going to talk about why it's more

1:15.2

important to try to live so that you can recover as opposed to trying to recover so that you can live and this is a really common

1:24.0

mistake or a common error or sort of aiming at the wrong target that happens in the

1:28.1

recovery community the anxiety recovery community so let's get to that

1:31.8

just by way of

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introduction if you are new here I am Drew Lynn Salata creator and host of the

1:36.5

anxious truth I am a therapist and training here in New York in the United

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