The Symptoms of Anxiety: Does Anybody Else Get ...? (Episode 005)
Disordered: Anxiety Help
Josh Fletcher and Drew Linsalata
4.9 • 665 Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
The Symptoms of Anxiety
Anxious people often get completely fixated and consumed by the physical, mental, and emotional symptoms and sensations that come along with anxiety. It's natural to want to talk about them all the time and to keep asking "if anyone else gets" the symptom you are experiencing that scares you at the moment. This week on Disordered, Josh and Drew discuss anxiety symptoms, explaining that they are scary and uncomfortable, but not dangerous and not something to be avoided.
The guys, as usual, share their own experiences with scary and disruptive anxiety symptoms and they even end the episode with a little friendly rapid-fire competition to see who can name the most symptoms. Spoiler alert ... that segment comes complete with cheesy video game background music.
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| 0:00.0 | We're going to go through some of the main symptoms of anxiety, most common ones, but we'll also talk about the uncommon ones. |
| 0:13.0 | Oh, it can be very scary, especially if you're new to this. |
| 0:16.0 | If this has just started happening to you and you don't understand what a panic attack is and you've never |
| 0:21.0 | encountered this before. For me, it was 100% terrifying. I thought I was dying. I was 100% convinced |
| 0:26.4 | something that was really physically wrong with me. But at the time, like Drew, yeah, it was |
| 0:31.3 | the most frightening symptom for me, along with a thora of other symptoms. I was always amazed at how many new ones were able to pop up over time. |
| 0:41.4 | I would get new symptoms and then freak out because, yeah, but I never felt this before. |
| 0:46.7 | That's just your body processing what is a very healthy response. |
| 0:52.8 | Welcome to the Disordid Podcast. This is episode five entitled The Symptoms of Anxiety. Does |
| 1:00.5 | anybody else get headaches? Does anybody else get chest pains? Drew and I can really relate to this. |
| 1:07.2 | I'm Joshua Fletcher, psychotherapist and author based in the UK. And I am Drew Linsalada, |
| 1:13.3 | graduate student and therapist in training in the United States. Welcome to episode five. |
| 1:18.3 | Hot topic. Everybody wants to talk about symptoms. So we will because it's important. This is part |
| 1:22.4 | of psychoeducation. We call this psychoeducation. And it's critically important, especially |
| 1:26.1 | in the beginning. |
| 1:34.5 | Drew, if you could just off the top of your head guess how many symptoms of anxiety there are, what would you say? |
| 1:37.6 | Well, I mean, I don't even know at this point. |
| 1:43.3 | I would probably guess we can compile well over 75 of them quickly, quickly. |
| 1:50.1 | Oh, yeah. At least. Probably hundreds yeah we're going to go through some of the main symptoms of anxiety most common ones but we'll also talk about the the uncommon ones you |
| 1:56.8 | know and the reason why this episode is called it called does anybody else is because um it's one of the comments that we actually see quite a lot in our comment sections, in our social media posts, in Facebook groups, etc. |
| 2:12.9 | It's because when we're feeling frightened, and we don't like certain symptoms, |
| 2:18.3 | and particularly if we're scared of, |
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