The Anxious Truth - A Panic, Anxiety, and Mental Health Podcast

Is Calming Anxiety and OCD Even Real? | EP 356

Send in a question or comment via text. When you're really anxious, panicking, or in the middle of an OCD flare up, you feel strongly compelled to do something. A compulsion, a ritual, a safety behavior, reassurance seeking, an escape. It feels like you're doing something important. In this episode I explain why I call all of that theater. It looks and feels like you're accomplishing something, but all it really does is change how you feel in the moment. I start by walking through the anxiety...