Out of the Anxiety Box

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

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🗓️ 30 December 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

You're not even out of bed and you're already worrying. So let's talk about it: How anxious we are, how we got that way, and what to do about it.

Original Air Date: March 25, 2023

Interviews In This Hour:

Patricia Pearson on A History of Anxiety — To Waste Time Is To Deepen Life — Treating Anxiety With Horror Films — Natalie Merchant on 'Leave Your Sleep' — Robert Rand on Healing Through Zydeco

Guests:

Patricia Pearson, Richard Polt, Eliza Smith, Natalie Merchant, Robert Rand

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, it's Anne.
0:06.4	Anxiety rates are skyrocketing in America.
0:09.9	It's one of the highest reported mental health issues in the country
0:12.6	and one of the hardest to treat.
0:15.6	Medication therapy, exercise can all help,
0:18.7	but if you're wired for anxiety, you probably know, as I do, that they might not be quite enough.
0:26.6	So then what?
0:29.6	Then you have to get creative.
0:32.6	The horror movie helps me simulate the fear that I'm
0:37.5	feeling during my panic attack
0:39.3	in a controlled environment.
0:42.1	And if horror is not your thing,
0:44.0	maybe a quick two-step is.
0:46.9	Probably the most efficient way for me to have fun
0:49.8	was to go back onto the dance pool.
0:52.2	This hour, finding a way out of the anxiety box.
1:00.3	Wisconsin Public Radio.
1:07.6	It's to the best of our knowledge.
1:09.4	I'm And Strange Champs.
1:15.1	Music It's to the best of our knowledge, I'm Anne Strange Champs. If there's one state of mind, everyone in America knows, it's anxiety.
1:20.9	The highest reported mental health issue in the country.
1:24.4	I could quote statistics here, but for a quick snapshot of our national mood, just go to Amazon.
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