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The Anxiety Guy, Dennis Simmsk, shares his personal transformation from living a life filled with overwhelming worry

to becoming a full-fledged positivity machine.

A leading authority and generalize anxiety, Dennis gets to the truth of your mental health challenges

and sets you on a path to transforming each and every area of your life.

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Hey everyone and welcome to episode number 11 of the Anxiety Guy Podcast.

Dennis, I'm sick here with you today.

And today we're discussing a certain term

that Dr Albert Ellis coined in the early 2000s called symptom stress.

Symptum Stress is something that I want to make very, very clear to everybody out there

because it's a phenomenon it's going on everywhere

symptom stress is feeling upset about the fact that you're upset

It's having emotions about the emotions you're already feeling.

Being anxious about being anxious, being depressed about being anxious, being depressed, over feeling like you'll have this problem forever.

So it's an addition on top of the already heightened state of sensitization that you're already feeling.

And this is something that I went through for years in my life.

My experiences with health anxiety waking up anxious over the fact that my

symptoms are still there imagining how I'm going to weave my way around the day and how I'm best going to mask my

anxiousness. It was a constant struggle.

So it's important to understand that symptom stress drains our energy sources. We produce so

much internal energy just trying to deal with symptom stress and I promise you one

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