If you're constantly afraid of your next panic attack, or you've been Googling ways to stop disturbing thoughts, or if you're tired of living in fear of your own anxiety symptoms, this is going to challenge what you think you might know about rewiring an anxious brain.

Your attempts to rewire your brain might actually be keeping you stuck, and here's why.

Hey, everybody, welcome back to The Anxious Truth.

This is the podcast and YouTube channel where we talk about all things, anxiety, anxiety, disorders, and anxiety recovery.

I'm Drew Linzalata, creator and host of this channel, therapist practicing under supervision, specializing in anxiety disorders and anxiety recovery. I'm Drew Linzalata, creator and host of this channel,

therapists practicing under supervision, specializing in anxiety disorders, an author, an educator,

and an advocate on this topic. And yes, unfortunately, a former anxiety sufferer myself for many,

many years, but doing much better now. Today, we need to talk about something that's everywhere

in anxiety recovery circles right now, this idea of rewiring an anxious brain. And if you're

watching this, you've probably seen countless videos and articles that promise to sort of teach

you how to rewire your brain and to stop being anxious, to finally be free of panic attack

to make those terrifying thoughts go away.

And I kind of get it. Who wouldn't want that? I mean, who wouldn't want to just rewire their

brain and make all this stuff just disappear? But here's the thing, almost everything you've

been told about rewiring an anxious brain is mostly wrong, not just slightly wrong, but fundamentally backwards.

And if you're trying to rewire your brain the wrong way,

you might actually be reinforcing the very patterns

that you're trying to break.

So let's start the discussion with a little something

that might blow your mind.

Your brain doesn't have a delete button.

That's right.

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