One Man, One Mission, to rid the world of chronic anxiety once and for all.

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.

Here he is, the one and only, the Anxiety Guy.

Warriors welcome to episode number 115 of the Anxiety Guy Podcast. I'm Dennis Simmsack and today I'm going to dive

deep into what's called learned helplessness. I'm going to show you what it is. I'm going to explain in detail how it affects anxiety

suffers as well as depressed people currently, as well how it played a part in my own life, and what you can do about it. I'm going to give you

three very important solutions on how you can deal with learned helplessness because

it is an epidemic, it's everywhere everywhere it's in everybody lately it seems like everybody's going through

learned helplessness so it's not talked about enough and there is not enough solutions out there. So we're diving deep today. We're going to go into

this my friends and to understand it a little bit I want to give you a little metaphor

here. Think about baby elephants that get tied to a rope in a

circus for example. Those baby elephants do all they can in their power to try to

get out of that rope to get out of that tied feeling.

They want to escape, they want to escape and go into the jungle.

So they try, they try, they try, they give it everything they got, and after some time they just believe that, you know what, all this effort is meaningless, it's useless.

So the baby elephant grows up to be an adult.

And even though they're strong enough to escape the rope as an adult,

they've conditioned themselves to believe that it's not worth the effort.

So they always wait for the trainer to come around and let them out.

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