Ep. 54: Anxiety Is So Exhausting! Tips To Manage Anxiety-Related Exhaustion

Your Anxiety Toolkit - Anxiety & OCD Strategies for Everyday

Kimberley Quinlan, LMFT | Anxiety & OCD Specialist

Self-improvement, Education, Anxietymindfulnessmeditation, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 802 Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2018

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Anxiety-Related Exhaustion is NO JOKE!

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One of the most common struggles I hear from my clients and the members of the CBT School Campus is how EXHAUSTING anxiety and depression can be. If you are barraged daily by exhaustion resulting from Anxiety (or any other mental health issue), you are NOT ALONE! Experiencing Anxiety is a full-time job. No one can argue with that. Anxiety can drain us of our physical energy, our emotional energy and can cause us to have nothing left to give at the end of the day. It can make us too tired to be social and make us want to sleep the day away. Anxiety-Related Exhaustion can make us feel alone and like there is no hope for us. If this is you, this is the episode for you. Because you know what?! There IS hope for US! In this podcast, we talk about some mindfulness tools to manage anxiety-related exhaustion. We talk about learning to observe your thoughts and correct them to thoughts that are more helpful and less draining. We also address a few very important mindset shifts you may need to make. You see, when we are overwhelmed with tiredness and anxiety-related exhaustion, we often will begin to feel hopeless and start to believe that there is no end in sight. Everyone tells us, "Just keep going", but we can sometimes feel like we barely have the energy or faith that we need to "just keep going". In this episode, we talk about specific mindset tools that I use with my clients who struggle with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Anxiety, Depression and Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors (BFRB's). And last of all, I use one of my favorite metaphors for managing Anxiety-Related Exhaustion. You guys know me! I love to use silly metaphors. That being said, I really believe in it and it works. I promise you that it will make you take better care of yourself if you put it in place and prioritize it. Please don't hesitate to let me know what you think and if this is helpful. Also, if you listen on iTunes, please do leave a review. Good reviews help me reach more people and help me get the really important (and inspirational) people on the show. Forward we go, Kimberley

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0:00.0	This is Your Anxiety Toolkit, episode number 54.
0:09.8	Welcome to Your Anxiety Toolkit. I'm your host, Kimberly Quinlan. This podcast is
0:15.8	fueled by three main goals. The first goal is to provide you with some extra tools to help you manage
0:21.7	your anxiety. Second goal, to inspire you. Anxiety doesn't get to decide how you live your life.
0:29.2	And number three, and I leave the best for last, is to provide you with one big, fat virtual
0:35.5	hug, because experiencing anxiety ain't easy. If that sounds good to you,
0:40.5	let's go. Hello there. Welcome back. It is Kimberly and I'm so thrilled to have you with me again.
0:53.8	It is really summer now here in the Northern Hemisphere,
0:57.8	and, you know, I'm really reflecting on summer as being a time where we slow down and we have
1:08.4	fun and we try new things and we spend time with family.
1:14.8	And as I reflect on that, the thing that really came up for me that I wanted to speak with you
1:20.3	guys about is exhaustion because managing anxiety or any other mental health issue is a full-time job.
1:33.0	And a part of that full-time job description is you have to be able to handle all the other
1:39.0	things. You have to have this emotion or this experience or these thoughts, but you're also expected to show up
1:47.3	and live your life and be there for your family and do all the things. And I think this is where
1:54.5	for me, as we sort of come into summer, is you really start to realize how difficult that can be. Or even I would go as far as to
2:06.0	say that it's not really even a choice. It's not something you choose. It's something that you just
2:11.1	get handed. And I don't say that to make you feel hopeless at all. I just say that in terms of
2:17.1	the fact that it's not your
2:18.1	fault and it's not something you signed up for. So on the CBT school campus Facebook group,
2:26.7	this topic of exhaustion is actually quite common and someone actually asked me to do an
2:33.9	episode on anxiety- related exhaustion or I would
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