The Anxiety Guy Podcast

The Anxiety Guy
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The Anxiety Guy Podcast is the only resource you need to begin lessening and eventually ending your struggles with generalized anxiety disorder, hypochondria, and depression. Dennis Simsek takes you through the life of a former professional tennis player, who struggled with and eventually ended his 6 year struggle with panic disorder and health anxiety. Within those 6 years a dream was reached, a child was born, and suicide was being contemplated. This podcast exists so that you don't make the same crucial mistakes when it comes to stress and anxiety, that thousands of other people around the world are making. Change begins today...

  1. How to Redirect Anxiety Energy: From Fear to Fuel

    12H AGO

    How to Redirect Anxiety Energy: From Fear to Fuel

    Want a path out of anxiety? Explore Dennis's science backed recovery programs: https://anxietyguyprograms.com Today's Episode: Anxiety is energy, but healing begins when you stop directing that energy into fear. In this episode of The Anxiety Guy Podcast, Dennis explores how symptom checking, body scanning, Googling, and overanalyzing keep the nervous system stuck in survival mode. When fear keeps receiving your attention, it keeps receiving your energy. You'll learn how to notice where your attention is going, redirect that energy into something grounding and healing, and respond to symptoms with calm rather than urgency. These simple shifts help teach the brain and body that the sensations are not dangerous, and that you no longer need to feed the anxiety cycle. This episode will help you begin transforming anxious energy into greater clarity, steadiness, and healing. ▶️ Listen & Subscribe: Apple Podcasts: Subscribe Here Spotify: Subscribe Here YouTube: Subscribe Here Episode page: Catch up on previous episodes here 👥 About Dennis / Connect: Instagram: @theanxietyguy · YouTube: Click Here · Facebook Support: Click Here 📝 Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. Please consult your healthcare provider if you have specific medical or mental health concerns. Credits: Host: Dennis Simsek (The Anxiety Guy)

    15 min
  2. Body Scanning & Hypervigilance: Why You Can't Stop Checking Your Symptoms

    MAR 2

    Body Scanning & Hypervigilance: Why You Can't Stop Checking Your Symptoms

    Break the anxiety cycle with daily guided support inside my End The Anxiety Program, step by step tools, CBT based direction, and a clear path forward. Start today by Clicking Here.  Today's Episode: In this episode of The Anxiety Guy Podcast, we focus on body scanning and hypervigilance, the habit of constantly monitoring sensations for signs of danger. If you keep checking your pulse, breathing, dizziness, chest sensations, tingling, tension, vision changes, or "weird" feelings and then spiraling into health anxiety, panic, or catastrophic thinking, you're not alone. You'll learn why symptom checking, tracking, and Googling symptoms can feel helpful in the moment but actually trains the brain to stay on high alert. We'll break down how reassurance seeking and safety behaviors keep the nervous system stuck in fight-or-flight, and how to start interrupting the loop with a more neutral response. This episode is for anyone dealing with health anxiety (hypochondria), panic attacks, intrusive "what if" thoughts, DPDR, and chronic hypervigilance. You'll walk away with simple, practical steps to reduce scanning, stop compulsive checking, tolerate uncertainty, and begin rebuilding trust in your body again. ▶️ Listen & Subscribe: Apple Podcasts: Subscribe Here Spotify: Subscribe Here YouTube: Subscribe Here Episode page: Catch up on previous episodes here 👥 About Dennis / Connect: Instagram: @theanxietyguy · YouTube: Click Here · Facebook Support: Click Here 📝 Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. Please consult your healthcare provider if you have specific medical or mental health concerns. Credits: Host: Dennis Simsek (The Anxiety Guy)

    11 min
  3. Triggered by Other People's Calm? The Anxiety Comparison Trap

    FEB 23

    Triggered by Other People's Calm? The Anxiety Comparison Trap

    Break the anxiety cycle with daily guided support inside my End The Anxiety Program, step by step tools, CBT based direction, and a clear path forward. Start today by Clicking Here.  Today's Episode: In today's episode the anxiety guy podcast, we're talking about what happens when someone else's calm, confidence, or freedom triggers you and how social comparison quietly fuels anxiety, tension, and inner conflict. We'll break down the jealousy loop, the stories your mind creates to keep you stuck, and the shift from resisting life to allowing it so your nervous system can finally soften. I'll also share a practical story at the end so you can make the deepest connections possible towards your own anxiety recovery. ▶️ Listen & Subscribe: Apple Podcasts: Subscribe Here Spotify: Subscribe Here YouTube: Subscribe Here Episode page: Catch up on previous episodes here 👥 About Dennis / Connect: Instagram: @theanxietyguy · YouTube: Click Here · Facebook Support: Click Here 📝 Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. Please consult your healthcare provider if you have specific medical or mental health concerns. Credits: Host: Dennis Simsek (The Anxiety Guy)

    17 min
  4. High Functioning Anxiety: Why "Done Enough" Never Comes (And How to Fix It)

    FEB 16

    High Functioning Anxiety: Why "Done Enough" Never Comes (And How to Fix It)

    Head to theanxietyguy.com for the highest rated anxiety programs online along with a membership community (under community) where we can heal health anxiety together starting today.  ✨ Today's Episode: If you're dealing with high functioning anxiety, you can get everything done and still feel behind. In this episode, I break down why the "done enough" feeling never arrives for Type A nervous systems and how that keeps anxiety, overthinking, and internal pressure alive. You'll learn the hidden pattern behind "not enough yet," how it turns productivity into a safety strategy, and a simple daily reset to help your body accept closure so you can preserve energy, build self-compassion, and heal long-term. Reflection question: Where does your mind most often say "not enough yet," work, exercise, or relationships? ▶️ Listen & Subscribe: Apple Podcasts: Subscribe Here Spotify: Subscribe Here YouTube: Subscribe Here Episode page: Catch up on previous episodes here 👥 About Dennis / Connect: Instagram: @theanxietyguy · YouTube: Click Here · Facebook Support: Click Here 📝 Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. Please consult your healthcare provider if you have specific medical or mental health concerns. Credits: Host: Dennis Simsek (The Anxiety Guy)

    16 min
  5. Stop Overthinking: A Practical Technique for Your Anxious Thoughts

    FEB 8

    Stop Overthinking: A Practical Technique for Your Anxious Thoughts

    Head to theanxietyguy.com for the highest rated anxiety programs if you're tired of guessing and want simple daily steps to retrain the anxiety loop. ✨ Today's Episode: In this powerful podcast episode, Dennis Simsek guides you through the "Anxiety River" exercise, a simple visualization that helps you stop getting pulled into anxious thoughts and come back to a steadier place in your body.  You'll learn how to notice worries without chasing them, reduce the urgency to analyze or seek certainty, and train your nervous system to respond with calm presence instead of fear. If overthinking, intrusive "what if" loops, or body-based anxiety symptoms have been running your day, this is a practical tool you can use in the moment, at night, or anytime anxiety tries to take over. ▶️ Listen & Subscribe: Apple Podcasts: Subscribe Here Spotify: Subscribe Here YouTube: Subscribe Here Episode page: Catch up on previous episodes here 👥 About Dennis / Connect: Instagram: @theanxietyguy · YouTube: Click Here · Facebook Support: Click Here 📝 Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. Please consult your healthcare provider if you have specific medical or mental health concerns. Credits: Host: Dennis Simsek (The Anxiety Guy)

    17 min
  6. The Best Morning Routine for Health Anxiety

    FEB 2

    The Best Morning Routine for Health Anxiety

    Less fear. More direction. If you want daily structure to break the health anxiety loop, head to anxietyguyprograms.com. ✨ Today's Episode: Mornings can be the hardest time for health anxiety. The moment you wake up, your mind starts scanning for symptoms, looking for certainty, and bracing for the worst. In this episode, I share the best morning routine for health anxiety, simple, repeatable steps that help you stop body scanning, reduce reassurance habits, and retrain your nervous system to respond to fear differently. If you deal with morning anxiety, cortisol spikes, or that "here we go again" feeling, this routine will help you start your day with more steadiness and less panic. ▶️ Listen & Subscribe: Apple Podcasts: Subscribe Here Spotify: Subscribe Here YouTube: Subscribe Here Episode page: Catch up on previous episodes here 👥 About Dennis / Connect: Instagram: @theanxietyguy · YouTube: Click Here · Facebook Support: Click Here 📝 Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. Please consult your healthcare provider if you have specific medical or mental health concerns. Credits: Host: Dennis Simsek

    14 min
  7. Perfectionism, People Pleasing, and Guilt: The 3 Hidden Causes of Anxiety

    JAN 26

    Perfectionism, People Pleasing, and Guilt: The 3 Hidden Causes of Anxiety

    If you're ready for structured daily guidance to help you retrain the anxiety loop and respond to fear differently, visit anxietyguyprograms.com to find the program that fits what you're going through right now. ✨ Today's Episode: In today's episode, I'm breaking down three hidden patterns that quietly keep anxiety alive in the background of your life: perfectionism, people-pleasing, and guilt. These aren't just "bad habits." For many people, they're early survival strategies your nervous system learned to stay safe, stay connected, and avoid rejection. The problem is that what once helped you cope can now keep your body stuck in hypervigilance, tension, and overthinking. You'll learn how perfectionism trains your system to believe it's never safe to rest, how people-pleasing keeps you scanning others for approval, and how guilt becomes an invisible leash that pulls you back into overdoing and self-abandonment. Most importantly, I'll give you simple, practical ways to start putting these weights down without creating more fear or pressure. ▶️ Listen & Subscribe: Apple Podcasts: Subscribe Here Spotify: Subscribe Here YouTube: Subscribe Here Episode page: Catch up on previous episodes here 👥 About Dennis / Connect: Instagram: @theanxietyguy · YouTube: Click Here · Facebook Support: Click Here 📝 Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. Please consult your healthcare provider if you have specific medical or mental health concerns. Credits: Host: Dennis Simsek

    14 min
  8. Why Your Anxiety Recovery Feels So Stressful

    JAN 19

    Why Your Anxiety Recovery Feels So Stressful

    🎓 Start Here:  Ready for step-by-step clarity, not confusion? Heal your anxiety through daily guidance and nervous system retraining → Click Here ✨ Today's Episode: When Healing Becomes Another Form of Strain For many people living with anxiety, stress overload has been familiar for a long time. It may have even felt protective. Productive. Necessary. So when healing begins, it's common to bring that same energy into recovery itself. Trying harder. Doing more inner work. Monitoring progress. Pushing through discomfort. Constantly asking, "Am I better yet?" But what if that familiar stress response, the one that once helped you survive, is now quietly keeping the nervous system stuck in alert? This episode explores how anxiety recovery can unintentionally turn into another form of suffering when it's approached from the same identity that created the urgency in the first place. ▶️ Listen & Subscribe: Apple Podcasts: Subscribe Here Spotify: Subscribe Here YouTube: Subscribe Here Episode page: Catch up on previous episodes here 👥 About Dennis / Connect: Instagram: @theanxietyguy · YouTube: Click Here · Facebook Support: Click Here 📝 Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. Please consult your healthcare provider if you have specific medical or mental health concerns. Credits: Host: Dennis Simsek

    25 min
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The Anxiety Guy Podcast is the only resource you need to begin lessening and eventually ending your struggles with generalized anxiety disorder, hypochondria, and depression. Dennis Simsek takes you through the life of a former professional tennis player, who struggled with and eventually ended his 6 year struggle with panic disorder and health anxiety. Within those 6 years a dream was reached, a child was born, and suicide was being contemplated. This podcast exists so that you don't make the same crucial mistakes when it comes to stress and anxiety, that thousands of other people around the world are making. Change begins today...

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  • Creator
    The Anxiety Guy
  • Years Active
    2016 - 2026
  • Episodes
    541
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    The Anxiety Guy © 2024
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