Measuring Anxiety Disorder Recovery (Episode 87)
Disordered: Anxiety Help
Josh Fletcher and Drew Linsalata
4.9 • 665 Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
How can you tell if you're getting better? How do you measure or at least see progress when working on recovery from an anxiety disorder? What happens if you're "doing it anyway" but not seeing progress?
This week on Disordered we're looking at the "green flags" of anxiety recovery. What are the signs that tell you that you're making progress even when you might feel like you're not? How much of recovery is found in just doing it anyway? What if you're already doing it anyway and don't feel like you're making progress?
Josh and Drew are answering some of these questions with reminders about the real targets of recovery, shifting attitudes, willingness to come into contact with difficult internal experiences, and steering clear of Craig the Critic when he insists that you're doing it all wrong and never getting better.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys. My name's Nick. I'm a photographer slash book influencer up here in Canada. That's a really |
| 0:07.8 | weird title. I know. I firstly just want to thank you guys for doing this podcast. I just discovered it a few |
| 0:13.2 | months ago and I found it so helpful. So thank you for doing this every week. It's very kind of you. |
| 0:18.6 | Or my ask is what you would recommend to somebody who consistently |
| 0:22.6 | does it anyway, but doesn't really feel any progress. And for some backstory, I said I'm a |
| 0:29.1 | photographer. I primarily shoot weddings. And so it's kind of an insane job to have as someone with a lot |
| 0:33.6 | of panic and anxiety because every weekend I'm thrown into a room with sometimes |
| 0:38.0 | hundreds of people and everybody's looking at me to kind of guide them and I'm also trying |
| 0:42.0 | to create the best photos I can every weekend. So it is a lot of pressure. But I've been doing |
| 0:46.3 | this for about 10 years now and the first seven or eight years were fantastic. You know, I never |
| 0:51.4 | experienced any anxiety or panic, just had a great time. |
| 0:55.2 | Had my first panic attack about three years ago, and ever since, I have been dealing with it |
| 0:59.8 | on a weekly basis. I've been doing it anyway every weekend. Some weekends are really, really |
| 1:05.2 | tough. Some aren't quite as bad. But yeah, I guess I just am wondering what you would recommend |
| 1:10.3 | to someone who is doing it |
| 1:12.6 | anyway, but not feeling any progress and what you might recommend to help kind of move things |
| 1:17.7 | forward for me. You can use my name. That's totally fine. Thanks again, guys. Appreciate it. |
| 1:28.3 | Welcome to Disordered. |
| 1:29.8 | This is episode 87 of the podcast. |
| 1:32.0 | Today we're talking about how to measure anxiety disorder recovery. |
| 1:36.2 | I am Drew Lin-Salada. |
| 1:37.2 | I am a therapist practicing under supervision specializing the treatment of anxiety and anxiety disorders in New York in the US of A. |
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