I Am Anxiety I Am Anxiety

In episode 5 David continues to apply his recovery steps to individual anxiety symptoms.  Focussing on insomnia, he explains the physiology of this common symptom and illustrates how this knowledge can be used in a practical way to bring a level of acceptance to what may otherwise seem unacceptable. David shows how this attitude of acceptance enables us to remove ourselves from insomnia's grip and begin breaking the cycle of fear that keeps us trapped in anxiety illness.  

In episode 4 David begins to apply the recovery steps to individual anxiety symptoms.  Beginning with Brain Fog, he breaks down the physiology of the symptom then explains how this knowledge can be used to begin removing the fear.  David shows how gaining a better understanding of why we experience Brain Fog, allows us to remove ourselves from its grip and begin breaking the cycle of worry and fear that keeps us trapped in anxiety illness.

In episode 3, David illustrates how the knowledge of anxiety physiology shared in episodes 1 and 2 can be used to better understand and follow psychological recovery steps.  He discusses the two steps to recovery he followed during his own recovery and starts to break down step one.
Step one focusses on taking the fear out of our symptoms so we can reduce the quantity of 'I’m in danger' messages our amygdala receives. 

In episode 2, David discusses the three parts of the brain involved in the development of anxiety illness.  He outlines how changes to these parts of the brain - initiated by the stress hormone cortisol - can slowly lead us into the never ending cycle of worry and fear that ultimately leads to anxiety illness.
This knowledge is important because once we understand why we have become trapped  -physiologically speaking - we can then begin to understand how we free ourselves.

In this first episode David McLaughlin shares where his knowledge about anxiety comes from; how he used this knowledge to help himself recover from Generalised Anxiety Disorder; and how he hopes to help others by sharing what he learned in this Podcast series.