Anxiety

“Forethought tends to lead to people over-indexing to the future. So essentially what we start asking is, what if questions? What if I, what if this plane crashes? Oh my god. We know that people who are anxious are, live in the future. They create their own anx…”

“And then also some other things are also a bit more subtle when you look at the effect of an unhealthy gut on symptoms like anxiety, risk of depression, just an immune system that's out of check. Maybe influenced by some disturbances in the gut has an impact.”

“I don't think we can ever truly overcome it, as your example shows. Having anxiety tells us that what we're doing is important, gives us energy, helps us focus, but we have to manage it so it doesn't manage us.”

“As a matter of fact, the best predictor of depression, anxiety, For young adults is the answer yes to the question. Does your life feel meaningless? That's the best predictor.”

“Depression has increased by about a factor of three for people under 30. Anxiety by about a factor of two.”

“I think one of the ways we've majorly misunderstood anxiety, whether at any age, is we've doing the I believe you part, but we've forgotten the I believe in you part. And they're both again, really necessary together”

“The second myth is that if you feel the spark, it's definitely a good thing, and actually, sometimes certain people give us the spark because we actually don't know how they feel about us, so sort of that hot, cold feeling makes us wonder, does he like me? Doe…”

“It's 30% can be diagnosed with clinical depression. 30% can be diagnosed with ADHD. It's about 29% can be diagnosed with, like, problematic anxiety to, like, where a clinician would diagnose you with it. And there's some overlap that still ends up being, like,…”

“Many of the people who are anxious are precisely the people for whom life is the easiest.”

“It's hard to be an entrepreneur if you're prone to anxiety because everything's on fire all the time. You know, that's just the nature of the business.”

“And for introverts in particular, but this is true for everyone, the thing that makes conversations hard is not the conversation itself. It's our anxiety about the conversation, right?”

“I think my issue was more anxiety. Like paralyzing anxiety. Yeah. In 20, 21. Many times.”

“Typically you tell someone don't compare yourself to others, only compare yourself now to who you were before and who you want to be. But for some reason to make yourself feel better, You'd compare yourself to somebody else and go, well, it's not so bad, right…”

“I bet, I mean, it would be very interesting to know this, that anxiety and panic attacks and everything is just trapped energy trying to get out. Because remember, we're energy. At the end of the day, we're energy. And if there's creative energy and ideas that…”

“When you get physically aroused by anxiety, you're under that fight or flight threat response. It turns out that same response Happens to your body when you're excited. The human body has pretty much just one arousal response. Our heart beats faster. We breath…”

“I believe it's 18% of people will say that they have a form of anxiety. I mentioned in college students it's even higher, one in three.”

“National statistics report that now, nowadays, over 40% of college students report being too depressed to function most days. Over 60% say that they're overwhelmingly anxious. Another over 60% report feeling lonely, extremely lonely most of the time. Over 80% …”

“Just not having as much stuff to do wound up making students feel less FOMO, less anxious, less time famished.”

“Some people are aware of their anxieties, fewer people know what causes their anxieties, and even fewer people than that have a system for managing their anxiety.”

“So what anxiety is, is when your mind travels into the future, plays a video of the worst case scenario that could happen, then comes back to now and tells you that this is exactly how it's going to play out. Where in reality, usually things do not manifest th…”

“What I quickly realized is that by talking back to the anxiety, it actually made the waves of anxiety longer and the feelings of fraudulence more pronounced.”

“Primarily it's finding that which is already here that isn't anxious, and then as that, go back and check out what that part of you that's anxious is worried about.”

“It translates into depression, anxiety, heart disease, diabetes. They're all metabolic illnesses that come from a debt, running a deficit in your body budget.”

“But the reality is most people struggle in one way or another. And most Founders actually do struggle with, whether it's depression, anxiety, ADD, and actually the flip side of that, which is pretty interesting, is sometimes it's part of what allows them to be…”

“When we don't process fear, it becomes this backlog of sort of jitters and unease and not being able to sink into ourself, and it keeps our mind turning and turning and turning.”

“When we presence anxiety, and we're with it in the body, with the heart, with the mind, to whatever degree we can, it transmutes into awakeness, into paying attention.”

“At a much earlier age, perhaps, than you were prepared for, you were thrust into a position of being a parent, taking care, being a caregiver. And that's an important statement that you just made, because while it's not the only root cause of mental illnesses,…”

“The problem is that we achieve that goal and then all of a sudden the anxieties come back larger.”

“I could actually look at it and say, well, how likely is that to happen and how bad would it be if that happened? So then, and then I can just try to right brain myself, or no, I'm sorry, left brain myself out of it. And it works for me to really look at it an…”

“Rates of depression and anxiety before puberty are fairly similar. But at puberty there's a big divergence and depression and anxiety generally go up for girls.”

“So the area of digital therapeutics lies in the fact that for many areas, such as type two diabetes, anxiety, depression, PTSD, I think our go-to for cures for this is a pill, but actually these are behavioral problems, and it's much more natural to have a beh…”