And that really takes place a lot with people who have anxiety. You feel tension, you feel unease, you feel worked up,

therefore you assume that something's wrong. So for instance if you walk into work and you're feeling super anxious that day you may

over interpret things that you see as being dangerous or as being signs of you

being infected somebody else being infected whatever it is when you're already

worked up before you even walk through the door,

you're going to interpret things as more dangerous and as more scary.

Hey everybody, before we start the show, I want to make a couple disclaimers.

This show does cover a wide variety of topics related to

mental health and life in general and some of those could be sensitive for you. I

want to simultaneously encourage you to be brave in consuming difficult content

but also respect and recognize your

limitations so please use your best judgment I will never be offended if you need to

skip a question or an episode entirely but feel free to feel it out check out the

episode and just see what happens if you

need to skip that's okay but you know feel free to give it a shot first I also

need to say that while I am a psychologist I'm not your psychologist and I'm not your

therapist this is not intended to be

direct medical advice and you should not use this as a substitute for

professional help. So with those said let's go ahead and get into the show. All right.

Hello, friends of all varieties, this is the Hardcore Self-Help

Podcast episode 2007.

I'm your host Dr. Robert Duff, aka Duff the Psych.

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