Understanding Anxiety in the Nervous System: Day 20 Break the Anxiety Cycle

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Therapy in a Nutshell -Emma McAdam

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🗓️ 25 January 2024

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Break the Anxiety Cycle in 30 Days- Online Course- https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/anxietyskills Anxiety is essentially a state of your nervous system. In this video we’ll explore anxiety, trauma and burnout in your nervous system. There’s two ways that your nervous system plays a direct role in anxiety and depression- your alerting activating system can get stuck on or stuck off. And most of the people who get stuck in these states don’t realize it, they are trapped in these cycles and just feel chronically anxious or chronically exhausted. But the good news is that when you learn to identify what is happening, you can change it. Looking for affordable online counseling? My sponsor, BetterHelp, connects you to a licensed professional from the comfort of your own home. Try it now for 10% off your first month: https://betterhelp.com/therapyinanutshell Learn more in one of my in-depth mental health courses: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com Support my mission on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/therapyinanutshell Sign up for my newsletter: https://www.therapyinanutshell.com Check out my favorite self-help books: https://kit.co/TherapyinaNutshell/best-self-help-books Therapy in a Nutshell and the information provided by Emma McAdam are solely intended for informational and entertainment purposes and are not a substitute for advice, diagnosis, or treatment regarding medical or mental health conditions. Although Emma McAdam is a licensed marriage and family therapist, the views expressed on this site or any related content should not be taken for medical or psychiatric advice. Always consult your physician before making any decisions related to your physical or mental health. In therapy I use a combination of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Systems Theory, positive psychology, and a bio-psycho-social approach to treating mental illness and other challenges we all face in life. The ideas from my videos are frequently adapted from multiple sources. Many of them come from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, especially the work of Steven Hayes, Jason Luoma, and Russ Harris. The sections on stress and the mind-body connection derive from the work of Stephen Porges (the Polyvagal theory), Peter Levine (Somatic Experiencing) Francine Shapiro (EMDR), and Bessel Van Der Kolk. I also rely heavily on the work of the Arbinger Institute for my overall understanding of our ability to choose our life's direction. And deeper than all of that, the Gospel of Jesus Christ orients my personal worldview and sense of security, peace, hope, and love https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/comeuntochrist/believe If you are in crisis, please contact the National Suicide Prevention Hotline at https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org or 1-800-273-TALK (8255) or your local emergency services. Copyright Therapy in a Nutshell, LLC

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Emma, a licensed marriage and family therapist, and you're listening to the Therapy in a nutshell podcast.
0:05.7	It's my mission to create easy to understand educational content about therapeutic skills and topics that anyone can use in their daily life.
0:13.5	These podcast episodes are repurposed from my YouTube channel, which if you're interested, you can search for online under the same name.
0:20.2	I hope these episodes bring you more insight into how your mind works,
0:23.6	and what actions you can take in addressing your own mental health struggles.
0:27.6	And what actions you can take to improve your mental health?
0:32.6	Each podcast episode comes from a corresponding video you can find
0:35.6	on the Therapeutic a Nutschle YouTube
0:37.9	channel.
0:38.9	There are two ways that your nervous system plays a direct role in anxiety and depression.
0:44.0	Your alerting, activating system, your autonomic nervous system can get stuck on or stuck off.
0:50.2	And most of the people who get stuck in these states, they don't realize it.
0:52.8	They're trapped in these cycles and they just feel chronically anxious or chronically exhausted.
0:59.0	But the good news is that when you learn to identify what's happening, you can change it.
1:04.0	According to Polyvagal theory, there are three states of the nervous system.
1:08.0	There's safety, also known as ventral vaguel or the parasympathetic
1:11.6	response. There's activation, which is also known as the sympathetic response or the fight-flight
1:16.5	freeze response. And there's the overwhelm or shutdown response, the immobilization response,
1:22.2	which is also known as dorsal vagal, which confusingly is also a parasympathetic response in your nervous system.
1:29.3	But it's a more primitive state.
1:31.3	So what does a healthy nervous system look like?
1:34.3	You might think that if you're healthy, you're calm all the time.
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