Why Your Brain Craves Constant Stimulation (Leading to More Anxiety)

The Anxiety Guy Podcast

Dennis Simsek

Mentalhealth, Healthanxiety, Alternative Health, Anxiety, Mental Health, Hypochondria, Health & Fitness, Panicattacks, Depression, Anxietydisorder

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

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Podcast description:

In this episode of The Anxiety Guy Podcast, Dennis gets real about something so many of us feel but rarely understand: the restless need for constant stimulation and why stillness feels almost impossible when your nervous system is dysregulated.

If you find yourself bouncing from symptom to symptom, app to app, or thought to thought—this conversation is for you. Dennis breaks down how years of anxiety, stress, and survival mode train your body to stay on high alert, and why that constant buzz isn’t who you are it’s just who you learned to be.

You’ll learn how to stop treating your symptoms like emergencies, how to stop fearing every sensation, and how to finally come back to yourself without needing perfect conditions. Through personal insights and practical tools from The Middle Way (the next book), Dennis shows how healing begins not when everything calms down, but when you stop fighting your experience.

Resources Mentioned:

Emotional Freedom Techniques on The Anxiety Guy YouTube Channel
Surrender Session Meditations on YouTube
Health Anxiety University (Support Group)

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0:00.0	Hi everyone and welcome back to the Anxiety Guy podcast. I'm so glad that you're here today with me.
0:08.9	Whether you've been walking with anxiety for a while or you've just starting to understand what's happening in your body and mind, this space is for you.
0:19.9	Today, we're going to talk about something I know many of you will relate to,
0:25.8	even if you've never had the words for it. Why we chase stimulation. Why? We can't seem to slow down,
0:37.3	and how that connects directly to a dysregulated nervous system and anxiety.
0:44.7	If you feel like you constantly need to be doing something, checking something, staying ahead, even if it's exhausting, you're not alone and you're not broken. We're
0:57.6	going to explore this in a way that's personal, real, and hopeful, my friends. So let's breathe
1:04.9	together and let's dive in.
1:19.7	Welcome to the Anxiety Guy podcast where we delve deep into the heart of anxiety,
1:26.8	providing you with the tools, insights, and inspiration to reclaim your life from the grips of fear and uncertainty.
1:30.0	I'm your host Dennis Simsec, a former anxiety sufferer turned anxiety healer, and each week
1:37.0	we will explore proven strategies, share personal stories, and create more than anxiety
1:43.2	moments towards inner peace and empowerment.
1:47.0	Get ready to break free from the chains of anxiety and step into a life filled with purpose, joy, and unshakable confidence.
1:58.0	This is The Anxiety Guy Podcast and your path to liberation starts now.
2:10.1	Before we get started, if you're suffering from health anxiety, I have just the solution for you at the Anxiety Guy.com under health anxiety.
2:21.7	Give me 12 weeks of your dedication, your commitment, and I will help you to heal health anxiety
2:28.6	at theanxiety guy.com under health anxiety.
2:34.7	Friends, there's this misconception in the world of anxiety recovery that peace should feel good
2:43.0	right away. But here's the truth. When your nervous system has spent years, maybe decades, in fight or flight, calm doesn't feel
2:55.7	peaceful. It feels unfamiliar. It feels unsafe even. That's why so many of us scroll for hours,
3:07.1	overthink everything, stay constantly productive,
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