What Anxiety Recovery Lens Are You Looking Through? (Episode 56)
Disordered: Anxiety Help
Josh Fletcher and Drew Linsalata
4.9 • 665 Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
WHAT RECOVERY LENS ARE YOU LOOKING THROUGH?
This week Drew and Josh take a bit of an unexpected turn to explore ways that CBT and exposure-based approaches to recovery can fall short. Recovery can't always be about facing, accepting, exposures, and Claire Weekes. While we might not look to other models to unearth deeply hidden root causes for an anxiety disorder, other theoretical frameworks can be quite useful - or even necessary - to conceptualize why one might encounter obstacles in the recovery process itself.
In this episode, the guys so a little Transactional Analysis role play, drag the venerable Carl Rogers into the recovery forum, and generally provide different ways of looking at how you see yourself and what recovery lenses you might be looking through.
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| 0:00.0 | I just wanted to share my win with you. I am eight months postpartum and since giving birth to my daughter, |
| 0:08.4 | I've been suffering from panic disorder, agoraphobia, monophobia. I'm having troubles just |
| 0:13.7 | driving around the block. So my daily thing is going for a drive and getting further and further |
| 0:19.8 | each day as I go for a drive. And |
| 0:21.9 | yesterday I went probably the furthest I've gone in a long time by myself. I did have a panic attack. |
| 0:27.8 | I did not call my husband, which is what I would normally do. And I just turned around and started |
| 0:35.2 | coming back home. But I'm not done yet. |
| 0:38.1 | Which then my anxiety started to lessen. |
| 0:40.7 | So I decided I was going to drive just a little bit further because I knew that it was just anxiety. |
| 0:46.6 | And that's what I did. |
| 0:47.6 | And then I came home. |
| 0:49.5 | But I'm not done yet. |
| 0:51.2 | Felt a little bit defeated. |
| 0:53.5 | So I decided today I was going to go to the store. We had delivery come to our house for our groceries and I decided I was going to leave two items out. So I could go to the store and get those two items. This is the first time going to the store by myself in eight months. And I did it. I went. I did it. I felt really anxious. I felt shaky. My heart rate was up. |
| 1:11.9 | I waited in line, but I did it. And I felt really good after. I did not call anybody. And I'm just |
| 1:17.8 | proud of myself for getting through that. That's my small win. |
| 1:23.8 | Welcome to Disordered. This is episode 56 of the podcast entitled, What Recovery Lens |
| 1:29.0 | Are You Looking Through? I am Drew Lin Salata, a therapist in training, specializing in |
| 1:33.6 | anxiety and anxiety disorders in New York, in the US of A, a podcaster, author, and educator |
| 1:38.8 | in this community, and a former sufferer for many years of my life. And here's my esteemed |
| 1:42.8 | co-host. Hi, I'm Joshua Fletcher, also known as Anxiety Josh on social media. |
| 1:48.5 | I'm a psychotherapist who specializes in anxiety disorders based in the UK, co-host of this |
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