What Kind Of Anxiety Do I Have? (Episode 002)
Disordered: Anxiety Help
Josh Fletcher and Drew Linsalata
4.9 • 665 Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Drew and Josh take a whistle-stop tour of some of the most common forms of anxiety disorder. The guys take time to explain the difference between regular anxiety that all humans experience, and disordered anxiety which becomes a major life-impacting mental health issue. In this episode Josh and Drew talk about:
- Panic Disorder
- Generalized Anxiety Disorder
- Agoraphobia/Monophobia
- OCD
- Health Anxiety
- Social Anxiety
This episode also answers the question, "Is it normal to be afraid when thinking about or planning anxiety recovery?"
For more on Drew, Josh, and the Disordered podcast, visit us on the web at https://disordered.fm
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| 0:00.0 | Panic disorder is when you view the panic attack as a thing that should never, ever happen again. |
| 0:11.8 | And it's really a disordered anxiety condition of avoidance and hypervigilance |
| 0:18.3 | to make sure your body isn't going to do that again. |
| 0:24.6 | And there's a difference between checking in and monitoring yourself with your rational brain, |
| 0:26.6 | then there is compulsively and obsessively kind of looking out for the disaster |
| 0:32.6 | because you feel like you have a premonition. |
| 0:35.6 | Look, if you've been pointed in that direction, |
| 0:38.8 | then literally the first step is to turn around and point in another direction. |
| 0:43.2 | Pointing in a new direction is scary in and of itself, |
| 0:46.2 | and it's really hard, and it's a small step, but it counts. |
| 0:49.6 | It counts. |
| 1:00.3 | Welcome back to Disordered. This is podcast episode number two. I am Drew Lin-Salada. I am a graduate student and therapist in training here in the U.S. in New York specifically. With me as |
| 1:05.0 | always is my co-host on Disorder. Josh Fletcher in the UK. Hey, Josh. Hi, everyone. I'm Josh Fletcher, also known as anxiety Josh. |
| 1:13.1 | I'm a qualified psychotherapist specializing in anxiety and anxiety disorders and also a previous sufferer of several anxiety disorders. |
| 1:21.8 | One of the questions that both Drew and I get asked quite a lot is what kind of anxiety do I have? |
| 1:30.3 | Anxiety is a broad topic. |
| 1:33.7 | You know, you must have heard this. |
| 1:35.0 | And if you're someone who struggles with quite acute anxiety, it's very frustrating when |
| 1:38.9 | someone says, oh, I've had anxiety. |
| 1:41.6 | I don't know what that's about. |
| 1:42.6 | But then actually what they say doesn't resonate with you. |
| 1:46.7 | And vice versa, maybe your experience with anxiety doesn't resonate with them. |
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