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Welcome to Raising Good Humans.

I'm Dr. Lisa Pressman, and today we're speaking with Dr. Meena Desari,

a clinical psychologist, an assistant professor

at NYU School of Medicine,

and a psychologist who has a private practice

in New York City who works with children and adults and today we are going to talk very

specifically about anxiety because we have this incredible clinician who is in the thick of it because we are in New York City where if national anxiety rates are at about 7% in children, which is 4.4 million children diagnosed with anxiety.

And New York City, probably, if I had to guess the numbers are even higher in New York City.

So I think we can get so much out of speaking with you and I'm so happy that you're here to talk with us. So let's jump right

into defining anxiety and defining anxiety disorder and the difference between those two things.

Absolutely. Well, Eliza, it's great to be here.

Thanks for having me.

I'm so happy here.

I jumped right into a question.

I love it either let you say hello. No hello you know like I said I'm

very happy to be here this is a wonderful chance to talk more about you know actually working directly with

clinical disorders and especially anxiety and kids and like you said there's a lot of

kids who are struggling with this.

I mean, we're talking about 4.4 million kids.

And that's a big number.

So you said, you wanted to start with defining anxiety right?

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