The videos I make are requested by you the viewer. Please feel free to suggest any mental health related topics you'd like me to cover in future videos.
I so wish you were here in the states; actually in my city. I would make an appointment with you in a heartbeat. It is difficult to find a therapist that one feels comfortable with. I think you chose the right profession. Thank you for all your videos.
Perfect and succinct description, as always. I had intense GAD for 6 years, and I have only gotten it under control in the last year. I feel like I've been released from prison. It was the most horrific experience - constant stomach knots that simply never stopped, constant worst case scenario thinking, insomnia every night, and worries about everything under the sun - past, present and future. Now that I have escaped that nightmare, I realise how skewed my thinking was. I was convinced that everyone disliked or hated me, I couldn't calm down enough to notice that there was no catastrophe taking place - it was all in my mind. It's strange to now understand how removed from reality I was, without being aware of that fact. The reason it all started for me was too much (negative) change in my life all at once, and total lack of control. I felt like something inside me snapped from one moment to another - I remember the exact moment. I have heard many other people say that this type of sudden, major negative life change is what caused them to start going down this nightmarish path too. Thank you for this video, Dr. Magee. It's true what others have said, you're definitely in the right field.
I remember when I got my surgery for my life-port, they had to give me the lowest dose of Valium, (one of the strongest medications out there to calm someone down for anxiety) and I immediately began to cry when it kicked. My Mom asked me what was wrong, and I asked her: "Is this what it feels like?" Confused, she asked "Does what feel like, baby?" I said in return "Is this what it feels like to be normal? To not be worried about anything all the time? To be this...calm? Is everything always this calm?" My Mom looked shocked and finally understood what I had been struggling to tell her for YEARS. Hilariously, after I sat there being so calm and acting so different, my brother, during my surgery, pulled my Mom aside and said "We are NOT leaving this hospital without that medication." 😆 I've explained to countless people the difference between long-term anxiety, short-term anxiety, and the brain giving you too much of one thing and giving you an anxiety overload for long periods. It's important not to confuse them. Thank you for this video as it gives more insight on Anxiety Disorders that interfere with people's day-to-day.
I'd love to see a video discussing prognostication - the level of prognostication that impacts daily life in an way that's extremely disproportionate and disabling. Many thanks 👍
My mother is horribly neurotic which I think is the same as anxiety. I just ignore it because it can destroy those around her if you play into it. She will never change so it’s her problem.
The videos I make are requested by you the viewer. Please feel free to suggest any mental health related topics you'd like me to cover in future videos.
Great series of videos. Clear, articulate overviews of a range of maladies. Many thanks.
I so wish you were here in the states; actually in my city. I would make an appointment with you in a heartbeat. It is difficult to find a therapist that one feels comfortable with. I think you chose the right profession. Thank you for all your videos.
Perfect and succinct description, as always. I had intense GAD for 6 years, and I have only gotten it under control in the last year. I feel like I've been released from prison. It was the most horrific experience - constant stomach knots that simply never stopped, constant worst case scenario thinking, insomnia every night, and worries about everything under the sun - past, present and future.
Now that I have escaped that nightmare, I realise how skewed my thinking was. I was convinced that everyone disliked or hated me, I couldn't calm down enough to notice that there was no catastrophe taking place - it was all in my mind. It's strange to now understand how removed from reality I was, without being aware of that fact.
The reason it all started for me was too much (negative) change in my life all at once, and total lack of control. I felt like something inside me snapped from one moment to another - I remember the exact moment. I have heard many other people say that this type of sudden, major negative life change is what caused them to start going down this nightmarish path too.
Thank you for this video, Dr. Magee. It's true what others have said, you're definitely in the right field.
I remember when I got my surgery for my life-port, they had to give me the lowest dose of Valium, (one of the strongest medications out there to calm someone down for anxiety) and I immediately began to cry when it kicked. My Mom asked me what was wrong, and I asked her: "Is this what it feels like?" Confused, she asked "Does what feel like, baby?" I said in return "Is this what it feels like to be normal? To not be worried about anything all the time? To be this...calm? Is everything always this calm?"
My Mom looked shocked and finally understood what I had been struggling to tell her for YEARS. Hilariously, after I sat there being so calm and acting so different, my brother, during my surgery, pulled my Mom aside and said "We are NOT leaving this hospital without that medication." 😆
I've explained to countless people the difference between long-term anxiety, short-term anxiety, and the brain giving you too much of one thing and giving you an anxiety overload for long periods. It's important not to confuse them. Thank you for this video as it gives more insight on Anxiety Disorders that interfere with people's day-to-day.
I'd love to see a video discussing prognostication - the level of prognostication that impacts daily life in an way that's extremely disproportionate and disabling. Many thanks 👍
Thank you very much
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Appreciate your videos. I have social anxieties. It makes it difficult to be around large groups.
This was very helpful. I would be interested in more on this topic.
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My mother is horribly neurotic which I think is the same as anxiety. I just ignore it because it can destroy those around her if you play into it. She will never change so it’s her problem.