Common Myths About Anxiety Disorders

Sally Winston, PsyD, discusses some commonly held beliefs about anxiety disorders that are mostly or partially false, including why reducing stress, thinking positive thoughts, gaining insight about its origins, and lots of reassurance often do not really help much in reducing significant symptoms of anxiety. (April 17, 2013)
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[@FromPanictoParis]

Excellent video. Why do all the best videos on disordered anxiety and panic have so little views and comment's? More people need to see this. . fantastic video

[@Mike-nq3lq]

I think most people do not want to understand and deal with it.

[@Alllrise]

This gave me my life back... thank you all so much

[@ivannovoselac3518]

Did you overcome your anxiety?

[@Alllrise]

@@ivannovoselac3518 you never really overcome anxiety it’s just about understanding it. We fear what we don’t know but when we understand it’s here to protect us and not harm us the chronic anxiety goes away

[@ivannovoselac3518]

@@Alllrise yes i mean on anxiety as disorder.

[@marionsbooth6768]

My anxiety comes from my daily physical pain many ops make no difference but intense fear of another emergency

[@chevaliedelareverie]

This is wonderful! Thank you for sharing these insights. This was very easy for me to understand and apply. It's so encouraging! This will help me overcome my fears

[@marionsbooth6768]

I do feel sweaty and faint and pass out with anxiety!

[@sanketkhadilkar8219]

Each and every slide in this is gold!!Kudos to you.

[@yazeedk.1244]

Thank you sooooo much for this wonderful information

[@tomsale5142]

My grandfather avoided all stress possible and had quite simple good health life so I no that is not correct myself and my mother have not my mother has ms and myself muscle pain so peace is key to recovery

[@imvs1746]

hello from Chile, I'm trying hard to learn English to be able to enjoy your content, it's just great, in Latin America this way of seeing anxiety doesn't exist, I've suffered from generalized anxiety disorder for a long time, I've tried multiple therapies and nothing has worked; for which what you speak makes a lot of sense to me, I am very grateful for its content. If you can recommend a book on the same topic, I would really appreciate it.

[@englishcatholic578]

Recomiendo que busques las obras de Dra Claire Weekes. Una de sus obras, minimo, existe en espanol. Los principios son iguales a los de este video.

[@imvs1746]

@@englishcatholic578 muchas gracias, leeré !!!

[@user-tr5gw4ky8e]

Accepting short term discomfort is the antidote. To Long term Freedom !

[@gogaiee]

Thank you !

[@spcsld]

Thank u so much!!!

[@Yash-Gaikwad]

Here is a question (please reply) Does allowing the thought to be there and do it's thing (and after sometime getting numb to it), transform your brain physically and therefore your reaction to that specific event if it ever happened in real. I don't want to be emotion less and numb to it if it ever happen in real... I want to be angry and express myself totally. I don't want to change who I am for a intrusive thought.

[@user-tr5gw4ky8e]

Short term discomfort. Accept and don’t avoid!

[@skittles1002003]

Thanks

[@Smobro12]

This is great

[@codergeorge8436]

Why did you have to go and throw a hypothetical out to make me worry?

[@eddiew2325]

Hi coder did you know I love you

[@abshirohassen5]

We love you coder

[@ivannovoselac3518]

So recovered means that we can reduce anxiety to our baseline (like before disorder occurs). But because we have genetic tendency to anxiety disorders we can be sentitized again?

[@eddiew2325]

Hi Ivan do you realize how beautiful you look

[@calamari2153]

Good question wanna know that too

[@anjaananjaan5107]

You need to change "way of life". Need to keep busy in other ways.

[@matt.s8086]

Thank you for this! This really helps me 🫶❤️🫶❤️🫶❤️🫶❤️

[@tracyhughes5092]

ŴOW just WOW, she is outstanding! I mean it, she has a full understanding of how anxiety controls our lives and how we can confront it. I wish I had found this sooner.