How to Handle Your Pandemic Anxiety, With Psychologist Dr. Elena Welsh and Psychiatrist Dr. David Burns

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🗓️ 12 October 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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We're learning how to take our anxiety down a notch this week with help from cognitive behavioral experts Dr. Elena Welsh and Dr. David Burns. Listen to hear these two experts give tips on how to tame your anxiety using specific CBT methods, why it is that we tend to go down these anxiety spirals in the first place, and how to change our thinking for better outcomes.

Dr. Welsh is an LA-based psychologist who specializes in a wide variety of anxiety, mood, and depressive disorders, and is the author of The Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Work Book for Panic Attacks. Dr. Burns is a psychiatrist and the author Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy, and most recently Feeling Great: The Revolutionary New Treatment for Depression and Anxiety.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to The Upgrade, the podcast from the team of LifeHacker, where we help you improve your life one week at a time.
0:20.0	I'm Alice Bradley, editor-in-chief of LifeHacker.
0:22.7	And I'm Jordan Calhoun, Lifehacker's deputy editor.
0:25.4	And today we are coming to grips with our pandemic anxiety.
0:29.7	And we're learning just how to handle that anxiety with some useful tools.
0:33.3	Yes, and helping us do that today is psychologist Dr. Elena Welsh.
0:38.0	You know, this fight or flight response was developed to keep us safe in real predatory
0:42.5	situations.
0:43.9	And mammals don't worry in the way that we do.
0:46.5	So what's happening with all our stress-related diseases is I'm worried about losing my
0:51.2	job, losing my home, being homeless.
0:53.5	My body thinks that's really happening.
0:55.2	My body's like, oh, we're in danger, freak out, and that's where the stress hormones are
0:59.6	released.
1:00.6	Dr. Wilsh is a clinical psychologist based in LA who specializes in a wide range of anxiety,
1:06.2	mood, and depressive disorders.
1:08.6	She's also the author of several books, including Trauma Survivor Strategy for
1:12.5	Healing, Five-Minute Stress Relief, and the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Workbook for Panic Attacks.
1:19.0	We'll also hear from CBT pioneer Dr. David Burns. David is currently an adjunct clinical
1:24.6	professor emeritus of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the
1:27.9	Stanford University School of Medicine and has won numerous awards for his research in the field
1:32.2	of psychiatry and brain chemistry.
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