Anxiety Road Podcast

There are lots of apps for mindfulness and meditation. The advantage is just in time training, help and support and symptom relief. The disadvantage could be the continued separation from actual people, data harvesting by low lifers and the app not exactly meeting your needs.   I would say that it is important you develop your skills as an informed health consumer.   One way to do that is to visit...

When I'm looking for viable resources, I can tell when I find a traditional approach to treatment. Listed are two options listed, medication and therapy. Sometime they will mention others as a lifestyle choice. That is slowly changing. I am seeing more traditional sites including mindfulness and meditation.  There is increasing medical documentation that mindfulness and meditation work.  Medical s...

In this episode, a quick look at mindfulness-based stress reduction. The end of the year stuff is coming up early this year so quick episodes are probably going to be in the mix for the next few weeks.   If I can even get to an episode at all, it's that busy too much to do and not enough time.    However, my news feed blew up with articles, about a study about mindfulness-based stress reduction, T...

Hi folks, I'm at high tide with work and symptoms acting like a three-year old. But I wanted to put this out to let folks know that the Amazon. Care service has closed.    It is a little embarrassing for me. I had posted the episode in August and three weeks later the telehealth service began the process of shutting down.    From what I can suss out, there were several reasons for the service goin...

Generalized Anxiety Disorder is a pesky bugger.    It is worry on steroids. You worry about money; you worry about every ache or pain and worry about things in the past and the future.   There is nothing that you don't worry about, in excess.   And the amount of worrying you are doing can impacting your life.    Or keep you from doing things you want to do because of the fear of the unknown is goi...

In the introduction to this episode, I mention the financial bum rush of companies providing mental health apps to clients, patients and customers. Still working on that tact thing.   There is a small but growing segment of entrepreneurs that see gold in them there mental health hills.   Some of those entrepreneurs have honest intentions about making mental health accessible. They have hired psych...

Deciding on taking medication is a choice and a responsibility.  If you have been diagnosed with an anxiety condition or disorder, you probably have been told that one of the treatment options is medication.    As I mentioned in ARP 169, It is ok to decide if medication is right for you.    It is equally ok that you don't want to take medications. First step is to get a through checkup to make sur...

Having to live with anxiety symptoms is not easy. I can't speak for you but I have sometimes been shamed, embarrassed or felt hopeless after a bad bout with those rascals. My self-medication of choice is food. I kinda have to deal with that because it isn't an effective way to deal with the problem. I've been around this bend before so I know I can do it.   Will I? Probably.   You see my symptoms...

There is a lot to learn about Hemp Seed Oil (HSO).  The main reason why I wanted to cover it was that there is a lot of misinformation about the product. It is not hard to find hemp in food products.  It is dang easy to find claims or promises of calm or relaxation.   People that have an anxiety condition are prime suckers for dark side entrepreneurs. Ignorance helps them to take advantage and mon...

One of the things that I have learned about considering using hemp seed oil and CBD oil is that you need a lot of information.  Information about the laws in your states. Is cannabis legal where I live?   What do I want it for? Physical pain relief, a sleep aid or something to chill the anxiety symptoms down? Where do I go for credible, factual information? This has been one of the hardest aspect...

As I mention in the show, it is easy to get sucker-fied when it comes to purchasing hemp seed oil or CBD oil. There is a lot of flim-flam operators in the marketplace. We have a vulnerability to want to find anything that can help us cope.    If you are seeking for alternatives for traditional opiate medication it seems like it is an option. But if you don't know the basics, you can lose time, mon...

I want folks to make an informed decision. Before you can make a decision you need facts, research and resources. There is a lot of hokum about hemp seed oil and CBD oil. Both are oils that come from the hemp plant.   They are not the same. They service different populations and purposes. In this episode, a look at what is hemp seed oil and CBD oil.   There was an interesting conversation about th...

Still on my summer slowdown. This is the seventh year of the podcast.    Yeah, seven whole years of the show. The good, bad and WTF?   There are new things that are going to be happening behind the curtain, like creating shorter more focused episodes on a specific topic, concept or resource.    Which means I can take my time on the longer one and not try to jam everything into one episode.   I can...

November 2022 Update : Amazon Care telehealth service will shut down on December 31, 2022. Pulled the plug on it due to large corporations not signing on and the cost of running a commercial health service is expensive. I've have more in a future episode. I'll keep the episode up but it is gone, as in history. It is late and I typed out a long passage about how entrepreneurs and corporation lookin...

This is an Anxiety Road Podcast pebble in the road with a quick look at the book called The Body Keeps the Score Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of trauma by By Bessel van der Kolk, M.D. Published by Penguin Random House. This book is about how trauma affects the body and mind. I know many of you don't believe that your anxiety is trauma based. And you are telling the truth. If that is the cas...

I hate giving up but sometimes a retreat is necessary. Wish I could go to a retreat but that ain't happening. I know when I'm licked and I'm licked.  Not one but two computers have me on the ropes ducking punches.   So this is just a brief update of what's going on with me.    And what's going to be happening for the next couple of weeks. So in housekeeping news, I'm on summer slowdown mode until...

I'm having some technical difficulties and having trouble getting a full episode out. So I just thought I'd do this little quick episode. This is just a quick informational post on traveling with your medications. There is some concern that allegedly there are some agents that are confiscating medication. Below is the link to the official TSA.gov webpage where they publicly states that you are all...

In this episode, a look at some of the words that get confused with hoarding.  I mentioned that there are U.S.and UK television programs about hoarding. Also, there are multiple Youtube channels where a young person buys a the contents or acquires a hoarders property to find hidden treasures and money.    There is also a sub-genre of professional housekeepers being paid to clean the home.   I can'...

I think when I was starting out, I probably would not have considered Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.  I was really focused on stopping my symptoms and I was not the introspective person.    More bullheaded and introspective. I was much more focused on making my symptoms stop.   While doing the things that caused them in the first place.    I can tell you, that's probably not the way to go, but...

Before talking about Dialectical Behavior Therapy,  I want to give a brief reminder of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy aka CBT. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is a short term treatment that provides skills on how to transform negative thoughts and behaviors.   Traditionally, CBT is offered to people with an anxiety disorder, depression and other mental health conditions.   There are a number ways to do...

Sometimes we look for the thing to deal with our symptoms. The thing that is hard to get, access or is expensive. Or requires another person for delivery.   Not that kind of delivery, the whole structural system of good, services, materials and processing type of delivery. Not to mention that we all another person to do something.   Anyway,   We are looking for the thing that knocks some sense int...

The verbal poison for profit business that is coursing through the system is killing people. Both passively and in actuality.   And I can tell you from experience that the let's pretend balm of dismissing this as a mental health issue has been put into play.   Or a one-off action of a lonely man.    Sometimes all you can do is state the obvious.   We are alive.    And you can take pride that being...

There isn't one path to healing.  There can be dozens but when you are in the thick of it you only care about what works now.   So you might decide, you have stuff to do, you don't have time for introspections, give me the pill.   And it might work for you. Until it doesn't. Or your symptoms change. Or your anxiety expresses itself as anger. Or overeating. Or hording.   It can happen that you do m...

It is May it is U.S. version of Mental Health Awareness Month. Treating mental health concerns is just as important to treat as conditions for physical health. The need for mental health care is needed across all levels of society. Neither poverty nor wealth should be a barrier to access quality mental health treatment. Suicide is not something I want to talk about. I always want to focus on what...

Anxiety symptoms are pesky. We spend a lot of time trying to deal with them.    In addition to our daily task duties and responsibilities.    In this episode, I want to share a few tips that can restore a sense of stability and calm.    I don't want to turn anyone into a time robot.    There are some evil time technological oppressors that are rising in the workforce or the corporate marketplace. ...