Anxiety Road Podcast

The anxiety symptoms can muck up our ability to see what we've done, whether it was fair, good, or excellent. There are a lot of wonderful people that have anxiety conditions that do mighty good things. People write, create or force a revolution into how we should treat each other as human being. In this week's episode, a look at a pioneer that helped to improve mental health care in the U.S. and...

As one section of America tries to move forward there are others that are determine to hold on to what didn't work in the past and certainly won't work in the future.    In this day, do the best you can. That is the lesson to be learned across all of time and space. I had to record this episode seven or eight times.    I kept messing up. Mispronounced words. Forgot to explain something. Then there...

There are times when I find myself in unexpected territories. This is one of those times. It is why I'm trying to include more attention to the virtual mental health providers.  If you have ever listed to a podcast or watch YouTube, you probably have heard or seen something about the company known as BetterHealth.    You might have seen an advertorial from a social media influencer or from a podca...

A few years ago in an episode I said: Anxiety is so much more than the typical stress reaction.  For some of us, we gag, we choke, we have heart pains, we have chest pains, we have diarrhea, we have gastric distress, we have excessive sweating. We can't leave our homes. These are not the kind of things you're going to be thinking your way through if your symptoms are that extreme. And there was a...

I freely admit that I mentioned can soda too many times in this episode. But it had a profound effect on my body and parts of my brain.    There are folks that use other substances in excess to deal with their symptoms or whatever else is going on with them. For me, it was sugar drinks and pastries.    Almost never met a donut I didn't like.   I no longer beat myself up on wanting to scarf up a sw...

Some providers of services use the term behavioral health. Some use mental health.  I have spent the  hours trying to get a concise meaning of both terms.    It ain't easy.   The American Psychological Association defines behavioral as:   ...an interdisciplinary subspecialty of behavioral medicine that promotes a philosophy emphasizing individual responsibility in the maintenance of one's own heal...

Update 2024 - Seems like Ro Mind has bit the dust. Although the mental health only therapy explainer page is still listed on the website, it seems that there has been a downsizing of the medical services offered.  Per the main page of the website, they no longer list anxiety, depression and seasonal affected disorder conditions. When I select the "What We Treat" menu, there are no mental health se...

In this episode, a look at some of the mental tele-health options that are in or will be introduced to the healthcare marketplace. Next time, and throughout the year I'll show examples of a virtual mental health service, what it does, the pros & cons and other items of interest.  If you need support contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 988 or 1-800-273-8255, the Trevor Project at 1-...

This is the start to a mini-series about telehealth and telemedicine options. Starting out with a definition of what telehealth is, types of provider services including a taste of virtual mental health care and recourses.   The short version is, per the U.S. Department of Heath and Human Services,  "Telehealth — sometimes called telemedicine — lets your health care provider care for you without an...

Trying to finish up on my science literacy class. It is a pip. It is very good and provides a lot information about how scientists evaluate questions and data.    It is thumping my poor brain with all kinds of concepts. Once I finish the class, I should be back on a regular schedule.    Going through my stuff and seeing if I forgot anything. Seems like I did forget a thing or two.    I might have...

In this episode, a look at a kindness inspired grounding practice you could do when you need to tame your internal little hater. Sometimes people come to the podcast intentionally. They see the album cover or up on a social media site and check it out. Or they might see a post on a social media place and happen to see the name of the show.   Some entrepreneurial site owners will post a link to the...

It is the time when a bunch of people and advertisers want to encourage you to make changes to your existence and how you currently live your life.   You might in fact want to do this because you do not feel good in your mind and body.  Totally understandable.  But you don't have to define you worth on promises you really don't want to do.   There is a way to achieve your goals without imposing an...

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...