Fear in the Time of Coronavirus

Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson

Being Well

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

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🗓️ 16 March 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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We haven’t generally done episodes related to current events, but these events are challenging to ignore. The coronavirus pandemic has already placed a heavy toll on society – over a hundred thousand people have already been sick, thousands are dead, businesses, schools, and recreational events have closed, and there's been substantial economic turmoil. Today we’re exploring how to cope with the natural fears that arise during challenging times, the difference between useful and harmful anxiety, and how we can grow the inner strengths we need to thrive when things get tough. New Sponsor: Join over a million people using BetterHelp, the world’s largest online counseling platform. Visit betterhelp.com/beingwell for 10% off your first month! Key Topics: 4:50: Rick’s approach to this moment. 6:00: Claiming your agency. 10:40: Useful anxiety vs. harmful anxiety. 13:45: What makes something uniquely scary. 18:15: Finding, sometimes not particularly useful, ways to express agency. 22:30: How to start determining which form of anxiety you’re experiencing. 25:00: Three ways to work with excessive negative rumination. 28:30: Tools for managing needless anxiety. 33:00: Recognizing privilege while working through survivor’s guilt. 36:30: Anger and the sadness underneath it. From Dr. Hanson: The Foundations of Well-Being brings together the lessons of a lifetime of practice into one year-long online program. Podcast listeners can use the code BEINGWELL25 at checkout for an additional 25% off! Please don't hesitate to apply for a scholarship if you're in need. Hardwire lasting change into your mind and heart in just a few minutes a day with Dr. Rick Hanson's new program: Just One Minute. Use the code BEINGWELL at checkout for 10% off the purchase price! Support the Podcast: We're now on Patreon! If you'd like to support the podcast, follow this link. Connect with the show: Follow us on Instagram Follow Rick on Facebook Follow Forrest on Facebook Subscribe on iTunes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, welcome to being well. I'm Forrest Anson. Today we have an episode that's a little bit different for you.
0:10.0	We haven't generally done episodes related to current events, but the current events that are going on have made things kind of challenging to ignore.
0:18.0	The coronavirus pandemic has already placed a heavy toll on society as a whole. Over a hundred thousand people are already sick,
0:25.0	thousands have died, businesses, schools, and recreational events are closing and
0:30.6	markets have been crashing. I'm not an epidemiologist and I don't pretend to have
0:35.8	any kind of special knowledge here, but if experts are to be believed about this,
0:40.4	things are likely to get worse before they get any better. about this
0:45.0	virus, things are likely to get worse before they get any better.
0:44.0	But whether you've been directly affected by this virus pandemic or not,
0:49.0	there's been this other cost, and it's the weight of fear and anxiety that people have
0:55.0	been experiencing that it has placed on all of us. Natural questions arise like
1:00.4	how is this going to change our lives moving forward?
1:03.0	How at risk am I?
1:04.0	Should I stop seeing people I love?
1:06.2	Is someone that I know going to die?
1:08.2	Is my job going to go back to normal?
1:10.5	And what if nothing's the same after this.
1:13.0	And those are natural questions and there's no shame in them.
1:16.0	And I can say personally that I've started to feel psycho-emotionally activated,
1:20.0	literally every time that I hear the word coronavirus if not you know just kind of
1:26.2	generally moving through my day as these thoughts are kind of operating in the
1:30.0	background yeah I get irritable just thinking about it. And I don't know if you're
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