The anxiety that comes from being treated like an outsider | Valerie Purdie-Greenaway

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Health & Fitness, Fitness, Shoshana Ungerleider, Medicine, How To Be Healthier, Ted Shoshana, Ted Talks Health

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🗓️ 1 February 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

The stress you may feel being otherized or stereotyped can take a significant toll on your health and well-being. In this thoughtful conversation, social psychologist Valerie Purdie-Greenaway reveals the true source of this anxiety (hint: it isn't the individual) and shares strategies on building resilient systems of support for ourselves and others -- so that we can build a more inclusive, empathic and just world. (This conversation, hosted by TED curator Cloe Shasha Brooks, is part of TED's "How to Deal with Difficult Feelings" series.)

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:07.5	This is Ted Health.
0:08.5	I'm your host, Dr. Shoshana Ungerleiter.
0:13.1	Have you ever felt like an outsider that everyone else belongs except to you?
0:18.6	If so, you're definitely not alone.
0:20.9	In this episode of Ted Health, social psychologist Valerie Purdy Greenaway helps us unpack where
0:27.0	this feeling comes from and explains why it causes so much stress.
0:31.6	From her May 2021 interview for Ted's Had a Deal with Difficult Feeling series, she explains
0:37.3	what to do the next time you're in an anxiety-provoking situation and find yourself thinking.
0:43.0	Is it me?
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1:08.2	Listen to Work Life with Adam Grant wherever you listen to podcasts.
1:14.1	Hello, Valerie.
1:15.1	Thank you for being here.
1:16.3	One of the things I've been excited to ask you about is just you talk about how there's
1:20.1	two ways of seeing anxiety, right?
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