Dr. Nader, I have been doing this all my life. As a woman, you are encouraged to "trust your gut". Not necessarily good! Thank you for your clear, intelligent videos that delve into the problem and provide a solution.

This is the thing. When I have fears, the fears feel so real and then since i am a believer of manifestation, I get so scared they might manifest and then I spiral into anxiety and depression.

Just because you feel it doesn’t mean that its real✅ Thanks for the reminder.❤

This really help me. I suffer from anxiety and sometimes I am just anxious for whatever reason, doesn't mean anything, doesn't mean i am actually in danger.

I'm 44 year old and suffered for the last 30 years I was 14yo when it started because of childhood trauma ( the worst kind of trauma imaginable) my life is truly awfull , apparently my doctor said I suffer from health anxiety, panic disorder, emotionally unstable personality disorders, depression, panic attacks, agoraphobia, insomnia, constantly worrying about me health , I have no interest of doing anything, I don't laugh at what most people find funny, I'm always tearful, always tried with no energy what so ever , as soon as I stand up I feel dizzy , heart racing shaking, chest pain, shortness of breath and high BP but doctor said I do not have hypotension, I'm always fearing the next panic attacks, I have had bloods done and ECG and even went to see a neurologist, all came back normal results, I just can't seen to shake off the feeling of doom and dread , the only way I can explain how I feel is " imagine going in to a bar and you see your friends at the back of the bar at the far end of the room , you see them laughing and fooling around enjoying themselves, and there is a smoke machine filling the bar with smoke , but the smoke is black and I can't see nothing sound me apart from a falling feeling , deeper in to the black hole filled with smoke , in the distance and hear the happiness from my friends but I can't find then or join them , I'm getting dragged deeper in the hole with the vision of unknown hands dragging me down and deeper and deeper in to the black smoke filled hole , I'm screaming for help but my voice is muted and I'm trying to pull myself out of the hole but it's like I'm trying to get out of black thick oil that's filled the hole along with the black smoke , I want to laugh with my friends but my thoughts and racing heart and my constant battle with the black hole depression is making me that exhausted and tired I just don't have the energy, this is the only way I can explain how I am feeling , when I do want to do something my anxiety thought pop into my head ( I call him sooty) sooty says " your not going anywhere, your not going to enjoy it , I will make sure of it " then I will have an image in my head ( not literally an image ) but like I can see the scenario in my head ( for example) going in the the store and while in in the store I can see myself ( in my head not literally) in the store floor with paramedics surrounding my working on me with machines and wires everywhere trying to resuscitate me after a heart attack or a stroke, while my partner is looking over my crying and surrounded by on lookers , them my heart raced feel dizzy sweating , feel sick vision blurry , stuttering and can't get my words out , headaches churning tummy , and the fear of a panic attack while feeling like my whole body is literally shutting down, so I just sit and cry while curled up in a ball day in day out and constantly sleeping not because I'm sleepy but because when I'm not awake I don't feel the suffering, I am so alone and just see the four walls in my living room 24/7 , even just walking to the kitchen to make a coffee is a living hell as soon as I stand I feel dizzy start sweating BP goes up to around 187/107 and pulse 136 on average ( my doctor said it's just temp spikes because if anxiety and the fear of doing stuff the making my BP spike) when I'm sitting my BP is around 117/72 and resting heart 68 to 79 . I don't drink and stopped smoking and I have been in Zoloft/ sertealine but it gave my diarrhoea between 8 to 12 times a day constantly for 10 weeks so the doctor took me off them , they didn't change a thing and did not improve my mental health infact I fell worse , my doctor now wants me to try another SSRI called fluoxatine/ Prozac but I'm not going to take it as it's another SSRI so I can see the diarrhoea starting all over again , I'm currently on week 2 of CBT THERAPY with a therapist, and I really don't know what else to do, my friends say my appearance has changed and I look tired and warn out ,I have even started to get like a dermatitis like patches on my face and head , apparently due to high stress, I have seen a neurologist too because when I partly smile my face goes into spasm like a tremor almost like a hemifacial tremor, mainly my right side of my face near my jaw feel like it's dropped and lips and mouth feels droopy ,along with a stuck feeling in my throat, I literally feel like my body is dying , I have days where I even struggle to move my body arms legs and even turn my head I'm that warn down I'm 44 and feel like I'm 102yo old man , this really is a living hell , I can honestly say in my life I have never experienced happiness or the happiness feeling I truly do not know what that feels like I cannot remember the last time a laughed or smiled, I look out my window in the morning at people getting in there cars for work and smiling at there loved one while they head off to work or go for trips and days out with there loved ones will tears and running down my face crying because I'm so envious and jealous that I can do that or would love to do that ,I feel so lost in the smoke and can't find my way out. Someone please listen and help me I don't want to be or feel alone any more. When my attacker went to prison it said in the papers " perpetrator gets 18months , victim does life " how true this is .I can't work , I'm on disability, I financially struggle to make ends meet and don't trust anyone, it's a living hell, all I want is to experience some form of life as I don't know how to or know what that's like .please help me I feel so alone and lost.

I suffer from all of the cognitive distortions to one extent or another but this one is likely the most insidious since I tend to work intuitively and can usually rely on my intuition to do quite well for myself. However, when I use that same intuition to gauge aspects of myself the intuition tends to be faulty. It's disconcerting to think that your feelings are lying to you when you have to rely on them for survival. In my case though I've managed to survive fortunately but have suffered by living a very limited and constrained life due to my anxiety and depression.

Appreciate the time and effort!

I'm Grateful for this

Thank you for the video

Thank you ! This makes sense 😢

Thank you. I've learned alot 💚

Another interesting video. I look forward to the next one :)

I suffered very disturbing & continual 'brain chatter' to the extent I just couldn't switch it off. It was sheer hell & no one medically at the time recognised it. I felt the only way to stop it, was to end my life. Fortunately I didn't & instead I searched for help & after many months more, eventually got better with the help of medication & time without any stresses. I never knew their was a term for it & it was very difficult to outline the issue to professionals. All I was told, was the term 'ruminating' But many years afterwards the research I did, showed me that they were wrong & it was 'brain chatter' & to the awful degree were it was extremely debilitating & very scary. I'd like to know your thoughts on this symptom of Depression. Though it was more a break down/depression I had at the time after many months of being allowed to think I was dying with Cancer. Thank you

Maybe it's useful for others read the book "Feeling Good The New Mood Therapy" by David D. Burns. In this book Burns describes cognitive distortions

Please do more videos about this I just lost a relationship of 5 years due to this behavior on my part 🙏 💔

but isn't this in a built in survival mechanism. we haven't evolved much from our hunter ancestor days. some people have more active amygdalas and are emotional as people . maybe even intuitive empaths. isn't the fear and depression, anger etc generated to protect us or spur us to action. or prepare us for the worst. I'm just playing devils advocate Great video snd video snd audio quality. thanks