One Man, One Mission, to rid the world of chronic anxiety once and for all.

The Anxiety Guy, Dennis Simmsk, shares his personal transformation from living a life filled with overwhelming worry

to becoming a full-fledged positivity machine.

A leading authority and generalize anxiety, Dennis gets to the truth of your mental health challenges

and sets you on a path to transforming each and every area of your life.

Here he is, the one and only, the Anxiety Guy.

Warriors welcome to episode number 127 of the Anxiety Guy podcast. My name is Dennis Simsek.

Before I get into this podcast, keeping your mind that the number one CBT-based program for anxiety is at anxiety exit.com.

My friends today I want to take you on a bit of a journey into how my health anxiety manifested and how it spiraled out of control.

Because a lot of people have been asking, Dennis, you know, what's your story?

And as many YouTube videos as I have out there I haven't

really done a podcast episode going deep into childhood emotional traumas rules

and checklists that were embedded into me, and how it progressed towards

a life of fearing every single sensation and bodily reaction that I interpreted as being a physical ailment, which in turn turned

into health anxiety.

So these childhood rules are the things that I want to start with in this podcast episode. During my

childhood there were rules and checklists that were placed upon me that I took

to a whole another level as an adult, meaning never talk to strangers.

That was a big one. And you know what? These are these are coming with good intentions

from our parents. Never talk to strangers, who knows. But you can see that never talk to

strangers in their worldview and their perspective means that the world is a very scary place.

Another one was be cautious in new environments and surroundings.

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