What's YOUR Anxiety Narrative (Episode 79)
Disordered: Anxiety Help
Josh Fletcher and Drew Linsalata
4.9 • 665 Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Your anxiety narrative is the way you conceptualize your anxiety issues alongside how you see yourself, the world, your life in general, and how you may think your anxiety disorder developed or was triggered. Your personal narrative is important because nobody knows more about you than you!
When seeking help with an anxiety problem, your narrative is the place a good helper will start. Helpers do not get to tell you your own story or impose their stories upon you. They should start with your conceptualization - your narrative - and work to incorporate that into the theories or modalities they use that work best in the context of your primary issue.
This week Josh and Drew will explore why there is often confusion, conflict, and even debate about anxiety related narratives and how sometimes it can be difficult to conceptualize your own story when bombarded with so many varying messages on busy social platforms.
In the end, you are always the expert on you. Taking time to work out your anxiety narrative, including how it may change as you go through the recovery process, is a process well worth engaging in. Just remember that this can be unclear, confusing, or even frustrating at times so beware of the perfection of "doing it right" traps. Your anxiety narrative is organic. It lives and breathes and changes and that's OK. There is no wrong way to address your own story!
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| 0:00.0 | How do you think your anxiety developed? What do you think is the real problem here? |
| 0:04.0 | Who are you? What do you believe about yourself? |
| 0:06.0 | Like these all go into the picture that you have to paint to kind of see what you're going to do next. |
| 0:12.0 | Some of my colleagues are trained in different modalities. |
| 0:15.0 | They're like, no, you must address the trauma first. |
| 0:17.0 | Is there a part to play in that? Yes. |
| 0:20.0 | For me, though, working with |
| 0:21.4 | disordered anxiety, I will look at the barriers to people believing that they are the |
| 0:27.0 | coping technique, that they are the strength. This person with this big following is telling me what |
| 0:31.6 | my anxiety is. No, they're telling what their anxiety was. Your narrative really matters, |
| 0:36.0 | and your helper has to understand that, |
| 0:38.3 | be sensitive to that and match it. We can rely on general principles, but you have to apply |
| 0:43.0 | those within the differences. That's where those narratives can play a part. |
| 0:52.7 | Welcome to Disorder. This is episode 79 of the podcast. Today we're asking the question, |
| 0:57.5 | what is your anxiety narrative? I am Drew Linzalata, a therapist practicing under supervision |
| 1:02.3 | in the state of New York, specializing in the treatment of anxiety and anxiety disorders, |
| 1:06.5 | one of the co-host of this Vine podcast, a former sufferer of anxiety disorders, OCD, and depression |
| 1:12.3 | for many years of my life, but better now, and also an author, social media guy, educator, |
| 1:17.4 | advocate, you know, anxiety nerd. |
| 1:20.5 | I'm Joshua Fletcher, also known as Anxiety Josh. |
| 1:23.3 | I'm a psychotherapist who specializes and working with anxiety and anxiety disorders, |
| 1:30.3 | previous sufferer based in Manchester in the UK. |
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