My Anxiety Makes Me Frustrated / Angry / Sad / Guilty! (Episode 109)
Disordered: Anxiety Help
Josh Fletcher and Drew Linsalata
4.9 • 665 Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
When we struggle with chronic or disordered anxiety, we regularly experience powerful emotions that tend to look like fear or tension. We may experience intense feelings of being vulnerable, or doomed. We talk about these things all the time.
But what about when you have emotions about having those emotions? Struggling to overcome an anxiety problem that is creating disruption in your life is going to trigger actual emotions beyond just fear.
Many feel:
- Frustrated - because they can't seem to get better fast enough or make steady progress
- Angry - because they feel stuck in the anxiety loop
- Guilty - because anxiety is keeping them from living the life they want to live
- Sad - for the time they may have lost to anxiety
This is just a partial list. The emotions that come along with the struggle are real, valid, and must be acknowledged and addressed. Expressing them is important! This week Josh and Drew are talking about these often confusing and hard to handle emotions.
Have a listen. The conversation touches on the validity of all emotions, learning to be OK with all states of your humanity, why doing hard things is going to bring other parts of your life into the process, and how declaring catastrophe over how you're feeling NOW is a trap.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, both. I have a question that I don't think has been addressed before. I suffered with panic |
| 0:06.5 | disorder and have recently experienced resensitization. I found this very challenging emotionally |
| 0:11.4 | as I thought I'd overcome my anxiety disorder for good last time. My question is about crying. I am |
| 0:17.6 | doing everything anyway and feeling the anxiety, but I cry most days about how sad I am that my anxiety interferes with my life so much at the moment and often cry after I had to sit through panic. |
| 0:29.5 | There's a crying signal to the brain that I am still very fearful of the anxiety, is it reinforcing the threat response, or is it an okay form of release? |
| 0:37.6 | Thank you for everything you do. |
| 0:47.6 | Welcome to Disordered. |
| 0:49.2 | This is episode 109 of the podcast, contrary to popular belief, after two episodes 107 in a row. I am Drew Linzalata, one of the co-hosts of Disordered. Today we're going to talk about the fact that anxiety can be really frustrating and make you angry. So it's a good topic. We've got to get to it. Thanks for the question sender in error for kicking this off. What can I tell you about me before we get to my esteemed co-host? I am a therapist practicing in the area of anxiety and anxiety disorders in the state of New York. I'm a former sufferer of these very same problems for many years of my life, but much better now. Thank you very much. Three-time author, social media guy, psychoeducator, advocate, all of the things, and clearly one of the guys behind |
| 1:28.5 | disordered. And I'm joined as always by. |
| 1:31.5 | Hi, everyone. I'm Josh Fletcher, also known as Anxiety Josh. I'm a psychotherapist based in |
| 1:37.7 | Manchester in the UK. Previous sufferer, podcast co-host, social media, mess around a, you know, you know the drill by now. |
| 1:47.6 | Yeah, we met you. |
| 1:48.8 | It's all good. |
| 1:49.8 | So this was a good question. |
| 1:51.9 | The question, the person didn't want us to use their name, so we won't, but thank you for asking. |
| 1:56.0 | I wind up crying because I'm so sad because of my anxiety. |
| 2:00.2 | I think this is something we don't talk about enough. |
| 2:03.3 | Yeah, sorry, I was having a coughing fit. |
| 2:05.6 | Yeah, I remember I used to get really upset when I was in the midst of an anxiety disorder. |
| 2:11.4 | It takes its toll on you, particularly when you compare yourself to a time when you weren't sensitized. |
| 2:18.7 | I like how the question Senderina said, you know, I've been resensitized again. |
| 2:24.0 | And it's about your relationship with resensitization or just your relationship with anxiety |
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