Why do we have anxiety?
But Why: A Podcast for Curious Kids
Vermont Public
4.4 • 4.9K Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2024
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Why do we worry and how can we deal with it? Why do we get anxious? Where does anxiety come from? Anxiety or worry is a hard feeling to overcome, but it’s a universal human emotion. In this episode, we explore anxiety with clinical psychologist Eileen Kennedy-Moore, also known as Dr. Friendtastic. She helps us understand why moderate anxiety is useful and necessary. But too much worry can prevent you from learning new things or doing activities that could be fun. And she has some tips for how to overcome anxious feelings.
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| 0:00.0 | This is But Why? |
| 0:20.0 | This is But Why, a podcast for Curious Kids from Vermont Public. I'm Jane Lindholm. |
| 0:25.2 | On this show, we take questions from curious kids all over the world, and we invite guests on to help us with the answers. |
| 0:32.2 | Sometimes there are easy answers, and sometimes the answers are hard. It's especially hard to have concrete answers |
| 0:40.0 | to things that deal with our feelings and our own experiences as individual people. But there |
| 0:46.7 | are emotions and experiences that are pretty common that all of us have to one degree or another. |
| 0:52.4 | And today we're going to talk about a feeling |
| 0:54.8 | that is truly universal. Anxiety. We've invited a guest on who you may remember from a previous |
| 1:02.7 | episode, all about friendship. I'm Dr. Eileen Kennedy Moore, also known as Dr. Frentastic. |
| 1:08.4 | Eileen, or Dr. Frentastic, is a clinical psychologist, someone who helps people with their mental health. |
| 1:16.6 | She works with kids, so she deals with a lot of the same questions you send us about being scared or sad or other things that are bothering you. |
| 1:25.8 | And she also has a podcast where she answers questions from |
| 1:29.1 | kids, kind of like our show. So today we're going to have Dr. Frantastic tackle your questions |
| 1:35.1 | about worry and anxiety. My name is Bennett. I'm seven years old. I'm from New York. Why do we worry? |
| 1:43.0 | My name is Lainey. I am nine years old and I live in Dublin, Ireland. Why do we worry and how do you deal with it? |
| 1:49.5 | My name's Tiet. I'm 10 years old and I live in Barrington, New Jersey. Why do we get anxious? |
| 1:56.5 | I'm Dorothy and I'm 8 years old. I live in Melbourne, Australia. And my question is, why do we get |
| 2:02.7 | anxiety? Hi, my name is Maya. I'm 12 years old and I live in Canada. Where does anxiety come from? |
| 2:10.8 | That word anxiety. Are all of you familiar with that? It might be a new word to some of you. |
| 2:16.3 | So I ask Dr. Frantastic to define it. |
| 2:19.6 | Anxiety is that feeling of worry or tension or fear as we anticipate what is coming ahead of us in the future. |
| 2:30.1 | And the future could be in 10 minutes, or it could be in two weeks or next year, or maybe in the |
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