Listener Questions About Anxiety and Recovery (Episode 84)
Disordered: Anxiety Help
Josh Fletcher and Drew Linsalata
4.9 • 665 Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
This week Josh and Drew are answering questions from Disordered listeners.
- How to deal with the shame associated with anxiety and recovery when a partner or spouse isn't terribly supportive.
- How do re-gain confidence in oneself?
- What happens if you don't remember what non-anxious you was like?
- What about flushing, feeling hot, and getting goosebumps when anxious?
- I'm an introvert. What do I do when I want to go home to re-charge? Is that avoidance?
- What about when you're facing possible medical issues and it triggers anxiety?
- What about anxiety symptoms that are disruptive and I don't know how to manage them or stop them? What is that? If its a panic attack, how do I stop it?
As always, this episode includes some wins from the community, and healthy helpings of humor and compassion.
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| 0:00.0 | I have a question. It's not that anxiety has come back during a setback. It's that we've temporarily |
| 0:06.2 | lost confidence in ourselves. How do you go about regaining confidence in yourself? What if non-anxious |
| 0:13.1 | you is an introvert and so the default is to run back home to recharge? This has something to do |
| 0:20.5 | with symptoms. |
| 0:21.6 | I get really like a red face and also like I can get itchy all of my body and weird goosebom. |
| 0:30.6 | When being kind to yourself and just accepting that I have a fear of fear, |
| 0:35.6 | I don't know how to do so when my husband has no interest in learning more or helping. |
| 0:40.3 | When you guys say, do what non-anxious you would do, what do you do in the case that you don't remember who you were before you got it? |
| 0:52.3 | Welcome to Disordered. This is episode 84, where we take your questions, answering listener questions. |
| 1:00.9 | I'm Joshua Fletcher, also known as Anxiety Josh, and I'm a psychotherapist, an author who specializes |
| 1:07.2 | in anxiety, a previous sufferer, co-hosts of this podcast, author of several books, |
| 1:14.0 | and really excited because today is the first Disordered Roundtable, which we will be conducting |
| 1:19.0 | after this recording. It's going to be great. I am Drew Linzalata, the other co-host of this |
| 1:23.4 | fine podcast. I had anxiety disorders, depression, OCD for many years of my life, but now I'm better and I'm even a therapist now. Also, like, specializing in anxiety and anxiety disorders. I'm in New York if you're in the neighborhood. What else? I've written books about this. I'm on social media. I do podcasts, all the things. And yeah, we're going to answer some questions today. It's going to be awesome. If you're new to the podcast or a frequent listener, etc., we like to celebrate the community. We're going to dedicate today's episode and obviously answering your questions, but also we like to celebrate wins as well. Do we have any wins lined up to kick us off today? |
| 1:59.3 | We do. Let's listen to one, but I got to do a little bit of, how come it's doing this? Stick with me, guy. Don't I just put you on the spot? I'm really sorry. Stick with me, bra. I have to get my, here we go. Now we're going to solo this one, and it's good. All right, let's listen. Here we go. Hi, Drew and Josh. This is Katie. I'm in Arizona and the United States. I wanted to share a quick win. Oh, you can use my name if you want, but I wanted to share a quick win. This past weekend, my daughter had a university tour about two hours north of where we live. And everyone in my family wanted to make it just a day trip. But me, |
| 2:36.7 | I was like, no, we're going to do this overnight and make it a two day or three day, two night |
| 2:42.0 | trip. And traveling for me is a big trigger. I've, even before my anxiety disorder, |
| 2:49.6 | traveling has always been something that has caused me anxiety. |
| 2:53.3 | So for me to really push it is a big deal. |
| 2:55.4 | And I'm really happy about that, that I'm able to do that because it's something that I want to enjoy and my kids enjoy. |
| 3:03.2 | We went up there. |
| 3:04.8 | I was able to participate in all of the events, even with an anxious |
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