Anxiety is just a smoke detector. It's not the problem. It's just letting you know there's fires in your house somewhere. And usually those fires are relational in nature. Your body's detected that you're alone, that your marriage falling apart, that you don't have any friends, that your boss isn't safe. It may be detecting that you're not in control of your own life. The agency we talked about it may be letting you know that, hey, you have lost autonomy, right?

It's letting you know you're not safe.

There's danger somewhere, right?

Underneath that is we have a culture that says if you feel bad, if you feel anxious, that's the problem to be solved.

I disagree with that wholeheartedly.

If you, that's like hearing your smoke detector in your kitchen and just racing in there and climbing up on the ladder and pulling the batteries out, you stop the alarm.

Congratulations.

And your house burns down around you, which is what's happening to us right now in this culture.

Hey, everybody, Dr. Josh Axe here.

Welcome to the Growth Lab podcast where each and every week we talk about the science behind how to grow yourself, your health, your wealth, and take your career and finances to the next level.

Today we've got a guest. I'm really excited about it's Dr. John Deloney and he is a PhD in psychology.

And we're going to talk about how to overcome limiting beliefs. We're going to talk about how to build a mindset that can overcome anything. And a whole lot more. Also, John actually just wrote a book. We're going to talk about that a little bit today as well. But Dr. John, welcome the show. Thanks, man. And I think it's important to note my PhDs in counseling, which only matters if you're nerds and it's below the hierarchy of psychologists. So there you go. I think it's, well, listen, you know, I think generally you help people with their personal problems. So it's very, very good. You know, I've been watching you recently on YouTube and just so impressed. You know, you do, part of what you do is a call-in show.

People calling in with, I mean, just a number of issues, everything from depression to anxiety,

and numerous mental health issues.

Talk to me a little bit about what are some of the fastest growing health problems across the board

that you see and deal with today?

I, so when I first started the show, people would call in and ask about, you know, my husband

cheated on me, what do I do?

Or I've just got diagnosed with these three things and I don't know what to do next.

And I found myself, because I don't have a radio background, I would ask, why are you calling

me?

Like, you don't even call your friends. I would ask, why are you calling me? Like,

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