How To Stop Being Anxious

How To! with Mike Pesca

Peach Fish Projects

Education, How To

4.3 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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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. 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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0:30.6	It feels like almost like heat on the very top of my head. Like my ears get red and I start sweating a little bit. I know
0:40.2	that's kind of gross, but like I get like kind of clammy and I start feeling like things are
0:47.0	kind of closed in on me a little bit. You're listening to How To. I'm Charles Duhick.
0:56.3	Each week on this show, we talk to a listener who has a problem they want us to solve.
1:01.1	The problems can be pretty much anything, like how to give your mom a kidney, or how to uproot your life and move somewhere new.
1:07.5	And then we take your questions and we start digging.
1:12.7	We read up on the latest research.
1:18.6	We find an expert to see if they can help. This week, we're talking with a listener from just outside Dallas, Texas. 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, I really want to be a professional fisherman.
1:39.3	How's that going? It's not going great. I'm not that good of a fisherman, but I really enjoy it.
1:51.2	Tell me a little bit about why you sent us an email.
1:57.2	Well, I know it's kind of a universal topic, but stress really gets to me.
2:03.4	All of a sudden, I will find myself literally in a cold sweat, just thinking, oh my gosh, what's going to happen?
2:11.7	And it's been pretty rough.
2:14.0	And I really, I emailed you guys thinking, maybe there's somebody out there who can
2:19.9	help. Yeah. And how, how frequently does this happen that you kind of have this anxious response?
2:28.8	Well, I can, I can have these moments four or five times a day. And what does that feel like?
2:35.9	It's a very physical reaction, but then like psychologically, I know it's got to be damaging
2:41.4	because it hurts my work or it hurts the people around me who I'm having a conversation with.
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