Such wonderful insightful advice. thank you!

I'm so sorry

I gotta be honest with you... Your examples of catastrophizing... Kinda making me anxious...

I’m a firm believer that we have to treat people the same way they’ve treated us. So what that woman kept a friend? Is she happy now?

Wow did you teared up talking about your kids🥹!! Yes your mama heart is very tender💝

Music, especially dancing songs 🎵 make me happy. Disco started that trend and continues until now. 💃 🕺 😃 👍

For me, it’s usually number three.

I hope you know how amazing you are for helping so many of us

Because the desk carry’s everything

you Rock girl!! 🤟

I am a 3rd party vendor who works at various grocery stores and today, after constant customer interruptions on Memorial Day, I just called it a day after 2 hours. I have ASD and I felt a meltdown on the way.

Your explanations help me so much. Thank you

Thank you very much!, you save my life.

I like what was said about if you are afraid of dogs and you see your friend pet their dog every day, you will see that they are not as scary… but also what if you think they WILL still be scary for you… just not for your friend? How do you stop thinking like that ? LOL

It’s national “Hug your therapist day” you shirts or skins?

There are endless options for how i could live my life and that overwhelms me. I can't decide on anything ! Let alone decide what job/course to do. Helpppppppp

Im trying..

Yes, so don't stay in a toxic relationship

Gaslighting: i went into the ER with chest pain and shortmess of breath. I was having a legit heart attack and i was sent home with a paper on chest pain and how the ER does not prescribe pain medicine. I went back a couple of days later and they kept me for 10 days, the bloodwork showed i had a heart attack.

You are totally gracefull

Thank you it's helping

I’m not sure if im hsp of bpd…a bit sad to feel traits of both…confusing

This sounds like an elaborate model of the body scan cbt / exposure technique. Which I’m not entirely against. But your advice as a therapist is….to not feel anxious.

I feel so awful when they happen. The only way I could describe it was trying to escape from my own brain. I wanted to reach into my skull and scratch it all out. Head butting things helped a little bit. My people know now a firm hug can help me in a crisis and as a last resort a freezing cold shower. You hit the nail on the head with the fear about fear. I can barely remember what started me on this journey and whenever I’m going into a panic it’s like a cycle I can’t control and it’s inevitable. It’s a bit like OCD.

Never think about what you will achieve, because achievement is tolerable, just make it to be your constant routine

I realized that during my panic attacks I feel like I'm drowning. And that freaks me out until I realized as she was talking... hey, wait a minute. I know how to swim! I'm a really strong swimmer in fact! I AM OK! I can handle this. Very grateful for your channel. Thanks so much.

I noticed the flowers both pics. I make up happy endings the rare times I watch the news. I only see everything as negative when I get in fear or having a cptad flashback. Also if I am wmpathing especially ocd flare ups. To me it comes down to not surrendering to the fact that the part of me that sees and fears potential dangers is deserving of more love not less. I had to meet the ones that were doing the wYch out thing.

Thank you for this video ❤❤❤❤

🙏🏻 thank you

kind of hard to do with emetophobia if you're not looking to make yourself throw up like 20 times 😅

it does seem like a lot of people suddenly get more scared after having kids! only makes sense i guess...

As a sports psychologist I'm big on positive mental imaging as a major part of mindfulness but I find it transfers to non-athletes as well. Visualization of each step of conquering what you have anxiety about is a good start to actually doing each step, just as visualizing hitting a baseball before stepping into the batter's box

My avoidance is to watch these videos

Utterly brilliant video

One day at a time.😂

I applied a lot of this in deciding how I wanted to react to leaving my job. I decided that regardless how an employer might treat me as an employee, "You know employers these days - they require 2 weeks notice but they'll fire you with no notice," I decided that leaving on my own terms extended to my notice period too. Even if I perceive that I'm wronged and anyone who knows me would forgive me for going against my own values to be vindictive; I decided that I wanted to reinforce my own values and treated the employer as I would treat myself, according to my values. I don't win anything by being vindictive, and it doesn't even feel good in the end if I'm betraying my sense of self. It's ok to do something that no one else understands if it means being true to self (with the obvious caveat that it's a positive action).

But Emma, what if my neighbor's mowing really does bother me? 😂

I've made a conscious choice (thank you writers of Schitt's Creek for the line delivered by Alexis, "Nobody cares, David") that if someone has a problem with me, they are going to have to say it plainly to my face. Otherwise, it's not about me. I've spent tooooooo many years of my life picking apart whether someone likes me and I've decided that's not a thing I want to give energy to anymore.

Possibly because if there was no desk, there would be no chair. Though if there was no chair The desk would have no use.

Thank you so much ❤

Can you have anger attacks subconsciously like you feel only terrified of everything and you think it's a panic attack yet instead you come off angry without knowing???