The Anatomy of Worry Aftershow

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Hello, and welcome to The Overflow Podcast. My name is Craig Booker.
The title of this episode is The

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Anatomy of Worry The Aftershow. The material
in this episode is inspired by Winning the War

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on Worry by Louie Giglio. Note: I will talk a lot
about mental health, but please note this is not

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a substitute for therapy or mental health care
I am not a counselor or a physician if you need

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help with mental health challenges please find
a qualified mental health professional the title

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of this episode is The Anatomy of Worry Aftershow.
So like in my own Journey my own

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experience with struggling with brain health
you know like I talked about earlier is if we

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if we experience several traumatic events close
together it gets to the point we’re overwhelmed

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our system our body is overwhelmed our brain is
not coping well and you know there’s a point where

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at least for me in my experience I
needed to just get back to a place

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of like I need to recover to a point
where I felt some sense of safety

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and at the time you know the first thing happens
in my life and you know that was probably the

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major like start of all this which was being laid
off from a job not knowing anything about work

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life because it was my first real job that I think
of not knowing anything about being laid off and

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what it’s like because I’ve never seen anything
like that uh and people around me growing up

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not knowing what to do it was a big event but
it sure didn’t really like knock me over so yeah

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I you know the first event that happened in my
life yes it was upsetting yes it was traumatic I

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you know I I didn’t get help for it because I
didn’t know I needed help for it but I had other

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things happen along the way that as these you know
if you think of getting hit by punches because

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that’s how I think of it it’s like the first
one kind of knocks you back and you’re a little

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Dazed and Confused but then you recover and you
kind of come up with a plan to get back on track

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but then maybe soon after that you get hit with a
second or third punch and your brain is spinning

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and you know at some point you’re just so
overwhelmed that you can’t just do basic life

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and you need some help getting back on track um
and at this point is when I can relate to being

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so feeling so out of control I was just grasping
for elements or just the illusion of control

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like you are trying anything and
that’s when I think a lot of the

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the you know the OCD symptoms probably really
kicked up is before yes I checked locks when I

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go to bed uh it wasn’t overly excessive it didn’t
prevent me from getting on with life after all

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this occurred I was so traumatized by what I
experienced I it just escalated and got in the

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way and this was my my body’s response to what I
had experienced and so you know I think there’s

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some element like when you’re in when a person
is in that place that telling them not to worry

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is not very compassionate telling them that oh
it’ll be okay well it’s true they will probably

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be okay is like and when someone’s trying to
support them is not the most helpful thing

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you know a person in that place really needs
to feel like they’re seen and heard and

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and a lot of people trying to support them
don’t know what to say and when they say stuff

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it can kind of come across as
diminishing that person’s feelings

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and what they’ve gone through and so I think
in that situation, we have to love those people

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through it and see the hurt and see that you
use words to say I see how this is really

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that must be really tough and allow them to speak
their feelings rather than saying words that maybe

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seem dismissive I think a lot of this is good
but you have to put it in the proper context

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um you know the first lie about about doubting
God’s character and motives I think when we

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experience so many events like close together like
that we can start to say Okay God I know that you

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said that bad things can happen in this world but
why so many and so that’s when we need to kind of

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really refocus on what God’s done in
the past for us to kind of help us

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re course correct or readjust that’s all for
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