When it feels like Anxiety, but it's actually ANGER w/ Dr. Sarah Michaud
Therapy in a Nutshell
Therapy in a Nutshell -Emma McAdam
4.8 • 658 Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to another episode of the Therapy in a Nutshell podcast. I'm Emma McAdam and I'm a licensed marriage and family therapist. |
| 0:07.0 | And this podcast is all about taking the life-changing, but usually kind of complicated topics of therapy and boiling them down into simple, easy to understand concepts that you can use in your daily life. |
| 0:19.0 | If you find today's episode as helpful to you, please pass it on to someone else who could benefit from it as well. |
| 0:23.6 | Each podcast episode comes from a corresponding video you can find |
| 0:26.6 | on the Therapy in a Nutshell YouTube channel. |
| 0:28.6 | Also, these podcasts are educational and don't replace the advice |
| 0:32.6 | or direction you may be receiving from a therapist or other health professionals. |
| 0:36.6 | Now please, enjoy the episode. |
| 0:37.9 | Hey guys, today I've got another amazing video about a hidden root cause of anxiety. Sometimes |
| 0:45.5 | what looks like anxiety is actually anger. And as I've explored this topic, I found that |
| 0:51.8 | it's like really relevant to me because I'm not an angry person, of course. And then I look at myself and I find explored this topic, I found that it's like really relevant to me, because I'm not an angry person, of course. |
| 0:56.0 | And then I look at myself and I find out, hmm, maybe you should think about this, Emma. |
| 1:01.6 | So today I invited the amazing one and only Sarah Michelle to talk about anger as a root cause of anxiety. |
| 1:09.4 | And she's a psychologist, substance abuse counselor, tons of experience, really wonderful. |
| 1:16.0 | Can't wait to jump in to this topic with you today. |
| 1:19.4 | Okay, let's go. |
| 1:24.6 | I think a lot of people don't think anger and anxiety are that connected, but are they? |
| 1:34.7 | Yes. |
| 1:35.4 | There's a zillion reasons why people get anxious and depressed, but to me, anger is so significant. |
| 1:41.5 | And I'm going to give you to start a few examples. |
| 1:44.5 | Let's hear it. Okay. Of how I discovered this. Okay. So I'm in AA, right, in Alcoholics Anonymous. |
| 1:52.0 | I've been sober for 40 years. And one of the things you do when you first get sober is you do what's |
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