My Loved Ones Don't Understand My Anxiety (Episode 015)
Disordered: Anxiety Help
Josh Fletcher and Drew Linsalata
4.9 • 665 Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
My Loved Ones Don't Understand My Anxiety
This week on Disordered Drew and Josh talk about how anxiety disorders have impact not just on the person struggling to recover, but on the people close to them. When your loved ones want to help you, but just don't understand or "get it", this can cause frustration, conflict, and even anger and resentment. The guys talk about how our loved ones can be helpful, and how we can help them to help us in recovery. This is a great episode to share with someone close to you that might be frustrated by your anxiety struggles and looking for guidance.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm surrounded by people who want to help me with my anxiety, but they just don't get it. |
| 0:07.0 | These types of disorders are impactful not only for the person who suffers, |
| 0:11.0 | but for the people close to them in their lives, because they're very lifestyle impacting. |
| 0:15.0 | They didn't understand, they tried to be supportive, but I could see that they don't get this. |
| 0:20.0 | Yeah, if you're going to try and empathize with a loved one who's struggling, picture them about to go into open heart surgery. |
| 0:27.6 | Picture them about to do their driving tests for the first time. |
| 0:32.6 | Now remove all those dangers, but keep the feeling. |
| 0:35.6 | They're not choosing to have that feeling. |
| 0:39.0 | And that is a strange, horrible, isolating sensation. |
| 0:43.4 | If they could accept that explanation, |
| 0:46.4 | you wouldn't be listening to this podcast now |
| 0:48.3 | trying to figure out how to help them. |
| 1:09.9 | Welcome to Disordid. The title of this episode is they just don't get it, something I hear quite a lot as a therapist. My name's Joshua Fletcher. I'm a psychotherapist and author specializing in the world of anxiety disorders. |
| 1:13.0 | And I am Drew Lin Salata, co-host of Disordered. |
| 1:15.6 | I am a graduate student in clinical mental health counseling and a therapist in training in the United States |
| 1:17.3 | in New York, to be specific. |
| 1:19.6 | Hey, Josh. |
| 1:20.6 | Hey, they just don't get it. |
| 1:23.3 | When I was doing my old podcast |
| 1:25.3 | and we've been on social media for quite a long time now, |
| 1:28.6 | one of the saddest kind of questions that I hear is that, you know, |
| 1:34.6 | I'm surrounded by people who want to help me with my anxiety, |
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