Welcome back to Anxiety Slayer. I'm Shan van der Leek here with my sweet friend and co-host Ananga

Civier. This week on the podcast we're responding to a listener question from our private Facebook group.

I just want to say how much I enjoy your podcast,

your wisdom and overall energy is so powerful.

I've had anxiety for many years and recently I've been having lots of panic over the things I hear in the news

such as aliens solar flares

Basically anything world ending causes me to have massive panic attacks. I would really

appreciate it if you could talk about this. Talk about a potent listener question and

who doesn't feel like this on occasion right Ananga?

Yeah I certainly used to feel like this when I was a teenager and young adult first

of all I'd like to say thank you so much for you

kind words and such a great question. And yes when I was young I used to be

really scared of these things I'd spend hours going over them and worrying.

When I was a teen I'd go and huddle up in my room and feel very anxious and quite

scared actually and I grew up in a home where the news was on every evening like clockwork at six o'clock.

Everyone had to be quiet and it had come blaring into the house and it really disturbed me.

As you bring that up, it makes me think of a time, I was a young teenager, maybe 14 or 15,

where I was absolutely certain that the world was going to end.

There was some talk about all kinds of madness

and the world ending back then.

And as I've grown up now, I see

there are times in history where remember Y2K and all these different things

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