Stoicism, Anxiety, and and Marcus Aurelius ... Gone Wrong? | EP 333

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

🗓️ 17 December 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

If you're struggling with panic disorder, health anxiety, OCD, GAD, or other anxiety issues you've may have encountered online content that references Stoicism, warrior philosophy, and Marcus Aurelius. The message: master your emotions, be tough, control your fear through discipline and suffering. But that's not what Marcus Aurelius was actually writing about. In this episode, I dig into what Marcus actually wrote in his Meditations—his personal diary that accidentally survived 2,500 years....

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0:00.0	Stoicism, dead Roman emperors, warriors, kings, Marcus Aurelius, and anxiety.
0:06.7	This week on episode 333 of The Anxious Truth, I want to talk about how the principles of
0:11.2	Stoic philosophy, specifically the words of Marcus Aurelius are often twisted, misinterpreted,
0:16.9	and misapplied for people who are coming for help with wellness or personal development
0:22.0	but are struggling with anxiety disorders.
0:24.4	So let's get to that right now.
0:32.3	Hello, everybody.
0:33.3	Welcome back to The Anxious Truth.
0:34.8	This is episode 333 of the podcast.
0:36.8	We're recording in December of
0:38.5	2025 in case you are listening or watching from the future. I am Drew Linsalata, creator and host of
0:43.7	the Anxious Truth podcast. I'm a therapist who specializes in the treatment of anxiety and anxiety
0:48.2	disorders in New York in the US of A. Also now a four-time author on the topic of anxiety and
0:53.4	anxiety recovery,
0:54.7	a psychoeducator, advocate, social media guy, former sufferer of the very things we talk about on this podcast.
1:00.6	If you are new to the anxious truth, you just sort of accidentally stumbled onto the podcast or the YouTube channel today.
1:05.4	Welcome. I hope you find what we talk about today and in all of our other episodes helpful in some way.
1:10.6	And of course, if you're a
1:11.4	returning listener or viewer, welcome back. Thanks for hanging out with me today. Today I want to
1:15.9	touch on a topic that might not necessarily be in the mainstream therapy and anxiety treatment
1:20.5	the way I normally talk about them on the podcast. But I think it's important because it's an
1:25.1	ancillary topic that's closely related. And in an
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