Anxiety Help: Learning To Trust Your Body Again (Podcast Episode 304)

[@thedmhatesme7022]

I am an army vet and through my time served i was super active overachiever. Got out of the army and all the sudden i get anxiety and i had no idea what it was. I went to the emergency room 16 times in one year thinking "somethings wrong with me" or "i have some disease" every time i left there they told me i was healther than a horse. Your videos have helped me so much in acknowledge that anxiety can cause all sorts of things. Like tight chest chest pains vertigo and clammy cold hands to even thinking that your going to die at any moment. I want to thank you Drew for doing this for people like me who may have other anxiety issues because i thought i was tough shit until it happend to me. Again thank you Drew and everyone else keep up the good fight remember. Life is not worth living in fear.

[@jaydelorenz2352]

I was an everyday listener for about a year a while ago. Your podcasts saved my life and gave me the information I needed to help myself. I am now a single mother and business owner. I am constantly sharing your podcast to people on panic disorder forums on Reddit etc. what your doing is amazing and Thank you from the bottom of my heart. Your amazing !!

[@ktcee803]

I've had BAD anxiety for some time and it ended up as a breakdown due to health conditions. My worry became reality. Then....my brother got terminal cancer. The anxiety suddenly became very real. The health impacts - more than I thought would ever be. My brother passed away in February this year and I have to say that anxiety is real. The fear my body (with my real health conditions) will fail me, is paramount in my mind. Look what happened to Andrew. So now I'm wading through actual physical issues which alter my life and real anxiety because of death of my brother. Life is so fragile. Anxiety is real. But I'm determined to move through this because I need to know how to start living.

[@abhinavkapoor]

Thank you so much for this, I’ve been dealing with anxiety and panic attacks since the past 9 months and It’s definitely been up and down for the most of it My most recent ‘thing’ which I was fixated on was me feeling dizzy which made me scared to walk and do my daily activities; this has definitely helped reassure me and made me more hopeful Thank you drew

[@brittneywelch2186]

I'd love to hear a pocast on how to deal with co-existing anxiety and depression. Its rough! And how to deal when medications are upped and you feel like crap.

[@SDWits]

I have POTS and endometriosis. They have made me very fearful of my body. I feel I have no control when hot weather makes my pots flare while driving and I almost pass out ... Or when Endo makes me have horrible pain. I'm on edge waiting for the worst, especially if I'm alone.

[@AlbaLynxQueen]

These anxiety guys never talk about having real physical issues AND anxiety. They always give advice as if everyone is healthy. Really sad. Why don't they give advice how to cope with real physical diseases like cancer, heart problems, autoimmune etc while having anxiety

[@SDWits]

@@AlbaLynxQueen I feel like he touched on it, but it didn't resonate with me, especially when he instructed to spin in a chair to create dizziness. Doing that could create a real flare with someone with POTS. I don't think he'd condone doing that for someone with an actual issue, but this is why I can't resonate with the advice...recreating the very health issues that have created my fear is what's gotten me to this point. For someone with real health issues, I don't know if there IS a good answer, but I don't think it's exposure therapy. Btw, our bodies are responding as they should be. They're saying DANGER bc there is real danger. It's our mindset we need to keep calm. How do you keep calm if you're say, alone and in real danger?

[@AlbaLynxQueen]

@@SDWits Exactly. Agree 100%

[@holistically.torimarie]

THIS!!! POTS and Lyme disease (especially a years-long battle to finally get proper diagnoses) made me hyper-aware of my bodily sensations. I find myself constantly body-scanning, sometimes even triggering anxiety when there’s no real physical issue. It’s a really hard line to walk-balancing being practical about our limitations with chronic conditions, while not becoming trapped by body-scanning and anticipating symptoms. I don’t think Drew intentionally overlooks this experience, I think he probably just hasn’t experienced it on his own, and therefore, it’s not something he spends a lot of time researching and educating on. I think it might be more within the realm of medical-induced complex PTSD

[@La_Machina]

​@@AlbaLynxQueen I think it's the same when you have physical issues. For me it ist and i had a stroke and have anxiety. A stroke was even a worst Case scenario for me and it happened. Now i have to Deal with the anxiety that it will Happen again and i will die way to early. But everything i hear here applies as well in my Situation. At least logical, from the feelings Not so much. 😅

[@cityraintunes]

I’m a 37-year-old male. I’m having a baby next May and has been more anxious lately. And out of the blue, I’m having panic attacks with bridges and any building over the first floor. I have become convinced that the bridge or building is going to collapse. Even something as simple as going to the mall, which has been a very pleasurable activity has now become terrified. I’m still going anyway. But the panic attacks are to the point where I can’t even sit down because I’m afraid if I sit down, I will make the building collapse. It’s completely insane. It’s completely illogical. And I feel pathetic.I’ve been going because I thought exposure therapy is supposed to help you get to the other side. But I’m finding that with each exposure I’m more and more traumatized and feel less and less likely to go back and keep trying. What can I do?

[@satansalley6526]

Mate,don't feel pathetic as there's plenty of us out there. I've been there my self. It just came out of nowhere and while it's a pain in the arse just keep working with it not against it.Its draining mentally and physically but it feels better to have done it than not. Congratulations on being a soon to be Dad👍🇭🇲

[@cityraintunes]

@ thanks man. Right there with ya! This is tough.

[@trishadassrath8031]

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