I'm Obsessed With Anxiety And Anxiety Recovery! (Ep 019)
Disordered: Anxiety Help
Josh Fletcher and Drew Linsalata
4.9 • 665 Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
I'm obsessed with anxiety and anxiety recovery!
This week on Disordered Josh and Drew examine what happens when we become obsessed with anxiety and then obsessed with anxiety recovery. This is a thing that happens to many in this community, so it's worth examining. As usual, we share our own personal experiences with anxiety and recovery, then we throw in our professional knowledge and experience alongside the usual dose of humor and compassion. It's a good listen!
Oh, and this one has more yummy quotes per minute than any other podcast episode ever recorded, so check it out.
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| 0:00.0 | Today we're talking about being obsessed with your anxiety. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm obsessed because I feel scared and want to feel better. |
| 0:07.0 | Well, you can just become obsessed with it because there's a part of you that thinks it's a problem that needs to be fixed. |
| 0:12.0 | That was the most important thing in life. |
| 0:13.0 | How do I feel now? Am I doing this right? What can I do to feel better? What can I do to fix this? |
| 0:19.0 | I'm obsessed with trying to perfect and get to the bottom and get rid of this. |
| 0:25.2 | We become obsessed with the state of anxiety, and then we kind of naturally gravitate to |
| 0:29.1 | become and get obsessed with fixing that state. |
| 0:31.2 | And the obsession with my anxiety was that no matter how hard I tried, I could not seemingly |
| 0:35.5 | create, I couldn't make a positive outcome. |
| 0:37.9 | I will find a way the magic miracle thought or word or technique that gets rid of it so I can go |
| 0:44.0 | back to living my life of not caring about me or giving myself any praise and just getting on with |
| 0:49.4 | stuff. |
| 0:52.9 | Welcome to Disordered. This is episode 19 of the podcast called I'm Obsessed with My Anxiety. |
| 0:59.5 | I'm Drew Lin Salata, a graduate student in clinical mental health counseling, a therapist |
| 1:03.6 | and training and author on the topic of anxiety disorders. I am based in New York in the United States. |
| 1:09.8 | And I'm Joshua Fletcher, also known as Anxiety Josh, a therapist and author based in Manchester |
| 1:14.9 | in the UK. |
| 1:16.9 | Today we're talking about being obsessed with your anxiety. |
| 1:20.4 | That's a thing, isn't it, Josh? |
| 1:22.2 | It is. |
| 1:23.2 | And don't get me wrong, anxiety can be scary if you don't know where you are and the obsession |
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