Is My Worry Warranted or Is it Anxiety? | Ask Kati Anything podcast 81 | Kati Morton

[@eugenekonde2439]

Time Stamps Q#1 1:07 Q#2 7:08 Q#3 25:58 Q#4 41:47 Q#5 45:31 Q#6 47:57 Q#7 59:32 Q#8 1:03:48 Q#9 1:06:11 Q#10 1:08:56

[@liadanlei]

Kati, would you consider adding "video chapters" to your future videos? It's a KZbin feature that allows your video to be sectioned off in the player itself, so that people can more easily navigate between questions. Thanks so much for your videos and everything that you do!

[@natalieedelstein]

Thank you SO much, Kati! Your response to my follow-up question from 21:30-25:58 in this was incredibly helpful, and I actually have cried 3 times today just from hearing it this morning...I have been wondering and asking people and therapists about this for a long time and I hadn't heard a more clear, helpful and validating response from anyone yet! It means a lot to me. Thank you, thank you, thank you❣

[@anniemal9312]

Thank you for keeping the light on - I appreciate this side of your healing discussions more than your main channel in the sense that it seems to vibe with where I'm at in life, which at the end, is all interesting. Thx dood, fr.

[@nikkimckay860]

Hello everyone here in the kati community hope you are doing the best you can and getting though each day with there mental health take care everyday

[@nikkimckay860]

Hello your very welcome so meany people suffer with there, mental health I'm just a friendly person nice to meet you here

[@greid7288]

Not doing well at all, feeling very much alone struggling and at my end.

[@rosannaien9596]

In my own therapy when it goes silent for a bit I always thought it was so that I could reflect on the prior exchange, reflect on what I said and even for the therapist to “catch up” a little.

[@freeluigi4444]

Yep 👍

[@abby4027]

My anxiety used to run on autopilot 24/7. Therapy has improved my anxiety and has been a life saver!

[@nicoleleeanartist5999]

Thank you for doing this katie… i look forward to this every Thursday!

[@annellealexander4025]

It's always a happy Thursday once I get this notification 👏

[@carmenwiseman6416]

Thank you so much ! You help me so much to deal with myself .

[@_maia_m]

The question about anxiety vs hypervigilance was so interesting. I never thought about that before, even though I knew what hypervigilance is. But it made me think hypervigilance is really what I have most of the time, rather than anxiety, because there's rarely any worry thoughts. I just have this feeling that something's not right or I'm not right, and I feel scared, without there being anything in particular to point out.

[@TheJadestevens1980]

Omg, I just wrote practically the same thing. Why don't they listen to us? I'm sorry you are going through this, it's horrible isn't it,especially when anxiety treatments don't work and noone is really hearing what you are telling them. Hopefully we are now both 1 step closer to getting better. Xxx

[@TheJadestevens1980]

I have been trying to explain that I feel anxious and on edge and nervous all the time, but am not actually worried about anything to 3 different therapists now. They keep treating it as anxiety and panic disorder, and keep focusing on my 'worries' and I keep saying I have none, at least not in the way that it's abnormal. You have literally just described exactly how I feel, I don't have anxiety, I have hypervigilance, I understand that's a symptom, not a diagnosis, but I'm going to mention this in my next session and maybe we can move on from them asking me to write down my non existent worries or try exposure therapy, although I have no clue what I would 'expose' myself to, given that I don't have any specific triggers or fears. I don't know if you will see this, but from the bottom of my heart THANK YOU!!

[@catholicflower2018]

I've had the same issue before. To me, I feel very anxious but I've literally had a therapist say you can't feel anxious without worrying. Well, if I'm not worried about anything, what is this emotion? I feel a sharp tension, my heart races sometimes, I feel the urge to run away from the world, I can even start shaking sometimes. I want to hide and be alone or have someone come rescue me from this feeling... But if that happens without worrying, it's not anxiety? I don't understand.

[@user-qo9xu6fe5x]

thank you for this, my mood was just going down again, but then I remembered that your new podcast is out. So, thank you very much! 😍❤️

[@AJOG14433]

Thank you Katie for all the content you make for us. Truly greatful. Loves these questions. ✌🏽🙌🏽🔥💯

[@Itsnotnotmoon]

This was sooo helpful 🥺♥️

[@nancyliawoods]

Thank you ❤

[@pamisolester6651]

Thank you Kati for your content. Thank you for showing up consistently for so long even tho I bet it was not always easy. I am following you since your beginning and I am very interested in your future content. You have grown a lot as I can see. No matter if somebody doesn’t agree with your view point the truth is you have done so much good with all your videos over the years and that can’t be negated in any way. Have a great day ;0)

[@nataliehilton2661]

Thank you kati I'm sorry your still experiencing burnout

[@vanessaelsa5983]

Just wanted to let you know that AKA episode 80 has ep.82 written in the title on Spotify instead of ep.80. 😊

[@timcook4552]

This is a really good q and a

[@nikkimckay860]

Kati morton hello good afternoon from uk been waiting for this new ask kati anything missed so meany live podcast I really need this new podcast my anxiety has been horrible and my depression has suffered more sence I'm going though a healing and recovery process of haveing an operation a few months ago your voice is so calming to my mind you always give loads of good and helpful advice for everyone much love

[@diablominero]

Laziness is a virtue. It's one of the three virtues that define great programmers. Laziness is the disgust at the idea of wasting even a second of your life on meaningless work that drives you to find or develop labor-saving technologies any time you possibly can. Laziness is what drives human progress. If you're paralyzed by depression and feeling miserable, you're not lazy -- if you were lazy, you'd be proud of it, and rightly so.

[@hgzmatt]

Just really motivated to spend all your energy on depressive thoughts as opposed to other productive endeavours :)

[@hii-rk9xz]

About the 1st question... My therapist gets quiet even when I've answered a question!! What does that mean??

[@andreafeelsfantastic]

Maybe they are waiting to see if you have more to add?

[@natalieedelstein]

Me too

[@natalieedelstein]

And I just get annoyed that they're wasting my session time when it happens

[@saratexas5181]

Mine did that too, and sometimes I’d keep talking about more stuff 🤣. Your therapist may be just making space in case other thoughts arise!

[@marcelusdarcy]

Same but I just say 'I'm done' and that seems to solve it

[@freeluigi4444]

As a therapist, Im wondering why those silences never happen w/ my clients? Is it cuz 75% of them r diagnosed w/ADHD in addition to anxiety?

[@nikkimckay860]

Good list of questions I can understand and relate to question 2 I believe it's anxiety it sounds like anxiety

[@chunsicker11]

Question 9 really resonates with me. I really struggle with the having the motivation to change and struggling with my coping mechanisms. Medications probably help some but I still feel like I’m drowning in my symptoms… it all just feels like too much. I just worry about how it ends… but yea thanks for your answers.

[@ahmed2527]

You are not alone. I am also feeling the same for past 2 years.

[@Cozyandsweet]

What is the benefit of remembering repressed memories?

[@diablominero]

I don't mind when people try to guess what I'm saying so long as they give up if they're wrong a few times in a row. It feels like they're valuing my time and paying attention, not like I'm being rushed. When my dad and I talk about physics my mom can't follow the conversation because we'll say just enough of any particular thought that the other one can guess the rest and then we'll move on.

[@93etang]

oh my goodness the question about pandemic and the symptoms are literally me right now here in Alberta :( Covid has been so bad here...

[@sarah28886]

Hey Kati, a Melburnian here. I just wanted to say thanks for holding back from giving your opinion but even your implied comments about the situation in Australia are WAY off (in my opinion). We made sacrifices for each other and many of us are incredibly proud of what we achieved. In our community just 53 lives were lost per million people. In the USA it was 2126 per million. If you all had cared more about each other and less about individual rights you could have saved hundreds or thousands of lives. We have lockdown but the vast majority of us don’t have grief or the incredible fear you guys experienced. I’m proud and grateful to know I belong to a community that cares about more the economy (by the way, our economy actually did better than most around the world). People from the USA who think we need ‘saving’ are bat-shit crazy.!

[@ems11388]

Melbournian here also. I am feeling the grief, the frustration, the depression and the increased anxiety being stuck in lockdown for over 250 days. Maybe if your mental health was stable pre covid then this isn't a huge deal, but for many of us, this is tipping us over the edge. I live in a suburb with a very high rate of covid and am immunosuppresed and yes, I am fearful. Not being able to go to therapy in person has been really harmful to me.

[@GeorgePalmer-m8m]

I need to start to plan for my old age, which will take money. I think I might be going to inherit some money, which I was going to donate to worthy causes, of my own chosing.

[@georginagilbert3720]

Hello from australia! A genuine question for those overseas… what do you think is happening on australia right now? What are you being told? For some perspective: I am in sydney, with family in Adelaide and Melbourne. Pro-vax. Ok with lockdowns…. Annoyed with how long it’s been but I feel like people overseas think we are being locked up like animals? Anyway.. would love to hear 😊

[@SavedbyGod_]

Brit asking for a friend: does no one else say bugger off? 😂

[@Akanchwua]

Question 8 got me!!! I've never thought about this before...fuck. I think I might do the same?? But I don't know

[@timcook4552]

Just in time.

[@Deimnos]

Hypervigilance, Sing along everybody! " All day, all night, all day, all night... What the fuck? Johny, the Hypervigilence is muy loca! " :)) I'm sorry for reminding you of the song , i could not help myself make the pun

[@ws4612]

Another great broadcast BUT, Kati, it seems its time for you to take time out for yourself. There's so much content from you that a simple search will find something you've said already to help anyone. Maybe, if not stop then reduce frequency to monthly or fortnightly? It's said that Hippocrates said, "Physician, heal thyself," so perhaps put yourself first and do what you tell us to do. Put yourself first for a while.