How To Stop Being Anxious
How To! with Mike Pesca
Peach Fish Projects
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Matt has anxiety attacks. Every day. When he gets too many texts, when he starts worrying about his family, when the unexpected occurs: that's when the sweat starts and his mind begins racing. He's a strong guy — he was a cop — but he thinks today's problem is connected to a tragic event in the past, and he doesn't know what to do. In this episode of How To! we introduce him to Dr. Ben Michaelis, a clinical psychologist and habit expert, to help Matt figure out what's triggering his anxiety attacks and how he can get back control over his head — and his life.
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| 0:00.0 | It feels like almost like heat on the very top of my head like my ears get red and I |
| 0:08.3 | I start sweating a little bit I know that's kind of gross but like I I get like kind of clammy and I start feeling like things |
| 0:16.6 | are kind of closed in on me a little bit. |
| 0:22.3 | You're listening to how-to I'm Charles Doeck. Each week on this show we talk to a |
| 0:28.3 | listener who has a problem they want us to solve. The problems can be pretty much |
| 0:32.1 | anything like how to give your mom a kidney or how |
| 0:35.1 | to uproot your life and move somewhere new. And then we take your questions and we start digging. |
| 0:41.6 | We read up on the latest research. We find an expert to see if they can help. |
| 0:46.1 | This week, we're talking with a listener from just outside Dallas, Texas. |
| 0:51.6 | Well, my name is Matt Johnson, and I'm a father of three. I've been married for 20 years now, and my passion is one day when I grow up. |
| 1:03.2 | I really want to be a professional fisherman. |
| 1:05.6 | Yep. |
| 1:09.6 | How's that going? |
| 1:10.8 | Is that? |
| 1:11.8 | It's not going great. |
| 1:12.4 | I'm not that good of a fisherman, but I really enjoy it. |
| 1:21.5 | Tell me a little bit about why you sent us an email. |
| 1:27.0 | Well, I know it's kind of a universal topic, but stress really gets to me. |
| 1:33.0 | All of a sudden I will find myself literally in a cold sweat |
| 1:39.0 | just thinking, oh my gosh, what's going to happen? |
| 1:42.0 | And it's been pretty rough and I really I emailed you guys |
| 1:46.1 | thinking maybe there's somebody out there who can help. Yeah and how how frequently does this happen that you kind of have this anxious response? |
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