OMG! Nothing Works For My Anxiety!!! | EP 317

The Anxious Truth - A Panic, Anxiety, and Mental Health Podcast

Drew Linsalata

Anxiety Attacks, Anxiety, Anxiety Disorders, Health Anxiety, Agoraphobia, Anxiety Help, Panic Attacks, Health & Fitness, Panic Attack, Ocd, Mental Health

4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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If you've reached the point of declaring "I've tried everything and nothing works for my anxiety," this episode is specifically for you. Many anxiety sufferers fall into this trap and conclude they're uniquely broken or have a special form of anxiety that's resistant to recovery. As both a therapist and someone who personally recovered from panic disorder and agoraphobia, I'll explain why this frustrating experience happens. You'll discover why commonly-tried control and avoidance strategies ...

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0:00.0	Oh my God, nothing works for my anxiety, and I don't know what to do.
0:04.1	If you are an anxious person and you're at the point where you are saying that nothing works for your anxiety,
0:08.9	then welcome to episode 317 of The Anxious Truth. This one is for you.
0:19.0	Hello, everybody. Welcome back to The Anxious Truth. This is episode 317 of the podcast. We are recording in May of 2025.
0:25.6	For those of you who are watching or listening from the future, I am Drew Linzalata. I'm creator and host of The Anxious Truth.
0:31.2	I'm a therapist practicing in the area of anxiety and anxiety disorders in the state of New York.
0:35.8	I'm also a former sufferer of the very
0:37.7	problems that I speak and write about. I'm a three-time author on the topic of anxiety
0:41.8	and anxiety disorders, social media dudes, psychoeducator, advocate. You get the deal.
0:46.6	This week on The Anxious Truth, we're going to talk about what happens when an anxious person
0:51.0	starts to declare that they've tried everything and nothing works for their
0:54.5	anxiety. It can lead into a really dark place where you feel like you're worse than everybody else,
0:59.1	your anxiety is somehow special or you have a special immune form of anxiety that doesn't respond to
1:04.4	anything and you're kind of stuck. So we're going to talk about that today because it's a really
1:08.7	common experience, unfortunately, in the community of people who listen to this podcast and read my books.
1:13.5	Before we get into this topic, I just want to remind you that The Anxious Truth is more than just this video or this podcast episode.
1:19.5	There's a ton more resources on my website at the Anxioustruth.com, including all the previous podcast episodes.
1:25.8	The other podcasts I do with my buddy Josh Fletcher,
1:28.0	that one's called Disordered. There's a bunch of workshops and courses, all of which are very
1:32.0	low cost. There's a bunch of other free stuff, all the social media stuff, the books that I've
1:35.3	written. Head on over to the Anxioustruth.com and check it all out. There's a lot of good stuff
1:40.0	according to the people who use it. So avail yourself of all the resources. So I'm sitting outside
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