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7 Things I Wish I Knew When I Had an Anxiety Disorder · Bye Bye Panic

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[SPEAKER_00]: When I was 22 years old, I was diagnosed with the crippling anxiety disorder.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I was diagnosed with generalized anxiety, health anxiety, a panic disorder, and OCD.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And when this happened, I thought my life was over.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Doctors in therapist told me that all I could do was just manage this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Try some pills, maybe try some bring the exercises.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But here's the thing that no one told me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: A disorder is not a disease.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is not permanent and this is reversible.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So in this video, I'm gonna be sharing the seven things I wish.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Someone would have told me the day I got my diagnosis so that you don't have to figure this out all on your own.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And if you don't know who I am, my name is Sean, and over the last seven years, we've helped people around the world overcome their anxiety, panic attacks, and chronic symptoms.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What that said, let's get to number one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: When I was up my worst, what scared me the most wasn't actually the anxiety symptoms.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It wasn't just the panic attacks.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It was the feeling that no matter what I did, that this was my life forever, that no matter what, I would always feel like this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And while everyone else got to move forward and live their lives and feel normal, I was just stuck.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That no matter what I did, I had no agency, that I was at the effect of all of this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That hopelessness, that feeling of being completely at the mercy of something you can't control.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That was actually the heaviest part of my journey.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so if you feel this way, what I want to tell you is that this is your now, not your forever.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And here's what I can say this with confidence.
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[SPEAKER_00]: When doctors give you a diagnosis like generalizing anxiety, panning disorder, OCD, it's just a label to help them categorize you quickly.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's just a tool.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It helps doctors and therapists understand the pattern you're dealing with without you needing to go through your history every time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you were to change your doctor tomorrow, they know exactly what's going on without you needing to reshare your history all over again.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's all this is, just a label.
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[SPEAKER_00]: it's more for them than it is for you and the mistake many people make is that they make this label and identity.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They think that if they're having anxiety that this is something they're going to always have to deal with and that's not true.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And here's the thing that most people get wrong about anxiety disorders.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They feel that having an anxiety disorder means that they're feeling anxious all the time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: but having anxiety as an emotion is normal and healthy and every human on the planet feels anxious.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But having an anxiety disorder is something completely different.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What's actually happening when you have an anxiety disorder is that your nervous system has gotten stuck in a survival state.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's not just anxiety as an emotion.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's the fighter flight response that's stuck as a state, think of the difference like this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Feeling anxious is like a wave.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It comes, it peaks, it passes, but a survival state is different.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's like your nervous system has gotten stuck in high alert and refuses to shut off.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's running in the background constantly, scanning everything for danger, bracing for threats, even when there is no threat.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And here's what shifted for me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I understood that I was going to feel anxiety, just like I would feel any other emotions.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Happiness, joy, sadness, boredom, anxiety was going to be a feeling that shows up when it's needed, but that's state, that's survival state, where you're dealing with an anxiety disorder, that can be shifted.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Your nervous system has learned to get stuck in this pattern and anything it's learned it can also unlearn.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, I know what you might be thinking right now.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Sean, that sounds great, but you don't understand how many symptoms I'm dealing with right now.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The racing heart, maybe the dizziness, the de-personalization, the insomnia, the intrusive thoughts, I understand exactly what you're going through.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It feels like everything is broken all at once.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I felt the exact same way.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And this leads me to number two, and this really simplified the healing journey for me, which was every single one of your symptoms has one root.
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[SPEAKER_00]: See, when I was struggling the most, I was convinced that there was something medically wrong with me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This sensation's I was feeling were very physical.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I'd go from one doctor to another trying to figure out the cause of each symptom.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I used to think there was something wrong with my heart.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I thought there was something wrong with my brain.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I thought I had a digestive stomach issue.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I would try to go to all these specialists trying to figure out exactly what was going on.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I was treating every symptom like it was its own separate problem.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And every time I would go through this approach, I felt exhausted.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I felt like I was stuck in a hamster wheel and that none of my symptoms made sense.
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[SPEAKER_00]: one symptom would subside, and then another symptom would pop up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I would just feel like my body was falling apart.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But here's what was actually happening.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All those symptoms, every single one of them, is still coming from the same place, which is your nervous system.
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[SPEAKER_00]: When my nervous system was stuck in that fighter flight pattern that we talked about, it was sending signals throughout my entire body.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The mistake I made is that I thought it was an organ issue.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, when my body was creating excess adrenaline, I thought there was something wrong with my heart.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But my heart was just burning off that excess adrenaline.
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[SPEAKER_00]: My digestion had stopped because my body was in this fight or flight mode, and so I thought there was something wrong with my stomach.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It was just me reacting to a stress response that my nervous system was sending.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What I was dealing with wasn't a physical issue.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It was a nervous system issue stuck on high alert.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And here was the reason why I was stuck for so long.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I was feeling the sensations even though there was no danger.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I could understand the fight of flight response if I was in a life or death situation.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But I was just laying on the couch.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So it must mean that there was something physically wrong with me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: but there was nothing medically wrong with me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All my symptoms were a consequence of a nervous system that was stuck in a hypersensitive state.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so here was the framework that really shifted everything for me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I shifted my focus from having 10 separate problems to having one problem, which was my nervous system was stuck on protection mode.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If my nervous system could calm down, these symptoms would go away on their own.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I call this the anxiety umbrella.
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[SPEAKER_00]: where you throw all your symptoms, all your sensations under one umbrella.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Instead of having 10 problems or 20 problems, you just have one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Think of it like when you have the flu.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You don't fight each symptom of the flu.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You're not trying to fix the headache, the fever, the body aches.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You understand that once your body fights off the flu, all the symptoms will subside on their own.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But here's where most people go wrong.
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[SPEAKER_00]: When these symptoms show up, the racing heart, the dizziness, the interests of thoughts, what do they end up doing?
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[SPEAKER_00]: They try to avoid them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They try to escape them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They try to make them stop.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it's that avoidance that's fueling the cycle.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now this leads me to the next point, which is avoidance makes all of the stronger.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not just referring to avoiding anxiety, but I'm also referring to avoiding life.
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[SPEAKER_00]: avoiding places in situations because you have these symptoms and sensations.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And to highlight this, I want to share with you how my anxiety began.
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[SPEAKER_00]: My anxiety started off as a panic attack.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It was one panic attack.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It was isolated.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I never had one before.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And when I had that panic attack, I didn't even know it was a panic attack.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And everything shifted.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I started feeling off, I was fearful about getting another panic attack, and instead of letting the panic attack be there and letting it process itself, I would avoid places that would trigger a panic attack.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I stopped going to the grocery store because I had a panic attack in the grocery store.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I stopped going to work, and what ended up happening was that my world ended up getting smaller.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I eventually developed a gorephobia, which means I wasn't able to leave my house.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so what turned into one isolated panic attack turned into something that was running my entire life.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, here's what was happening.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Every time I avoided something, every time I said, I can't do this today.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not safe.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I was sending signals to my nervous system.
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[SPEAKER_00]: My nervous system was getting the impression that what I was going into was dangerous.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, what was happening is that my nervous system was becoming more sensitized, it was creating more of those fighter flight responses.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All that happened was that I had an avoidance cycle, and it was that fuel that perpetuated the anxiety cycle.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, anytime you avoid sensations or avoid or resist going places, you send your nervous system the message that this is dangerous.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And what happened is that your nervous system begins to generalize that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Hence, the term generalized anxiety disorder.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is why people who get panic attacks in the car, they stop driving, but then they'll get panic attacks in other small places that they end up avoiding.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They stop going on elevators because of a fear of panic attack.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They stop flying and going on airplanes because of having a panic attack.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Eventually, they might not even take a shower because that enclosed space gives them a panic attack.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Their nervous system has began generalizing the situation.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And anytime we avoid that situation, we validate that assumption.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, I know this is confronting, because avoidance feels like you're doing the right thing in the moment.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It feels like relief, but that relief is temporary.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Every time you reach for it, the anxiety grows a little stronger and your world gets a little smaller.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So here's a framework that helped me on the healing journey.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a framework that we use in the recovery program, which is focus on long-term freedom, not short-term comfort.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Don't focus on how you feel in the moment.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, the question is, okay, if I don't avoid, what do I do when this shows up?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Because here's the shift that changed everything.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's not the anxiety that's keeping you stuck.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's your response to the anxiety.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The disorder isn't feeling anxiety all the time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's the disorder response to your sensation that's feeling the cycle.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And this movie is made to the next point, which is, your response is the cure.
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[SPEAKER_00]: it's not you feeling anxiety, but it's what you do next.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So instead of trying to fight it, fear it, fix it, focus on it, getting frustrated by it, you do the opposite.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Instead of resisting this sensations, you let it be there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Instead of avoiding the place that brings anxiety, you go anyway.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Instead of fixing the feeling, you let the feeling be there without fighting.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now I'm not saying you should white knuckle this or distract yourself or pretend it's not there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm telling you to do the thing you haven't done, which is just to let it be there and choose to continue living your life.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now I know what you might be thinking.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Sean, that's a way easier said than done.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it's true, but just because it's not easy, doesn't mean it shouldn't be done.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We're here on the earth to do hard things as well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Not just easy things, but when you respond
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[SPEAKER_00]: That this isn't dangerous.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Your nervous system doesn't respond to logic.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You can't understand your way out of it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You can't reason your way out of it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You have to show it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, if this sounds all complicated, I totally understand.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Which is why I've created a free e-book showing you how to desensitize your nervous system and showing you how to respond.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The link is in the description box.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now think about it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Whenever you feel that uncomfortable sensation, you show up differently.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You don't fight it, you don't run away from it, you don't feed it with fear, you just allow it to be there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You accept it, you let it move through you without making it mean something terrible.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And as you start doing that, you send a new signal, a signal of safety, not danger.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And here's what this looks like in practice.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's say you have a racing heart that shows up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Instead of tensing up and thinking, oh my god, something's wrong.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You feel it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You breathe into it, and you say, I know what this is.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is my nervous system.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's not dangerous.
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[SPEAKER_00]: When dizziness hits, instead of trying to grab your phone or grabbing the table or anything like that, you just let it be there, and you stop fighting it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: When an intrusive thought comes in, instead of analyzing the thought or rationalizing with it or fighting it, you just notice that it's a thought.
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[SPEAKER_00]: and you just let it pass.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You don't give it the attention to make it grow.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, as you understand how to begin responding, you're gonna face something that no one warns you about, which is, you're gonna actually start having good days.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, you might even be having a few good days, and you might be thinking, okay, this is working.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I finally got this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: and then all of a sudden, a bad day hits.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Anxiety goes extra high.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All those panic sensations come back all at once.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You might be feeling in the intensity motions, and you might be thinking, oh my God, I'm back to square one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And that feeling, that devastation, of feeling like you've lost everything you work for, that was the thing that broke me more than maybe even the anxiety.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And this leads me to the next point, which is healing an anxiety disorder is not linear.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I wish somebody would have told me this earlier, because I thought healing would be like getting over a cold or like a broken bone, where it's just linear just gets better and better.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But healing from an anxiety disorder is the total opposite.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It is a very up and down affair.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It feels like you're going three steps forward and two steps back.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Any time I have a rough moment, I would spiral.
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[SPEAKER_00]: and it wasn't because of the anxiety, but it was because of the meaning I was attaching to what I called a bad day.
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[SPEAKER_00]: When I had a bad day, I felt like it's not working.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I would question the whole process.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I felt like this was me forever.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it wasn't the anxiety, but it was the story I was telling myself in those bad days.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Because I was creating a second wave of anxiety on top of the first one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The bad day wasn't the issue.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It was what I was making the bad day mean.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Because how do I know this that look recovery is messy?
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[SPEAKER_00]: That it does feel like two steps forward one step back.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You're going to have a great week and then maybe a terrible day.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You might be completely free for a little while and then it hits you out of nowhere.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's not a sign, it's not working.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's part of the healing journey.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then what happens is that the good days get better and better and then the bad days don't get so bad.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Eventually, every day becomes more or less the same.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You'll have normal good days in bad days, just like anybody who isn't in the cycle would experience.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's just part of the process, but the most dangerous thing about the bad day isn't the anxiety itself, but it's the story we tell ourselves.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Because the moment we decide that a bad day means we're back to square one, you kind of are.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Not because you actually want to go backwards, but because you've convinced your nervous system that the danger is real again.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And we already talked about what happens when your nervous system believes the danger is real, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Your nervous system becomes more sensitized.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So the next time a bad day hits, I want you to remember this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: A bad day is not a relapse.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's just another day.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You'll have good days and you'll have bad days, just like when you're out of the cycle.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now as you go through this, you'll experience one of the most surprising things about the healing journey.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This was one thing that nearly broke me and it had nothing to do with my physical symptoms.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Once I started losing the fear of my physical symptoms, I started dealing a lot with cognitive symptoms, which were symptoms around my thoughts.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It wasn't just anxious thoughts, they were like dark thoughts, scary thoughts.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Thoughts that made me think, what's wrong with me?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Why am I thinking this?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Am I a bad person?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Am I going crazy?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Is this something else besides anxiety?
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[SPEAKER_00]: And what happened was, is that I was identified with those thoughts.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't realize that anxiety creates a lot of physical symptoms, but it also creates a lot of these thoughts.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I had to recognize something that I had never recognized before, which was, I am not my thoughts.
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[SPEAKER_00]: My whole life, I had been identified with thoughts.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I felt like I had a thought.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This was me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If I had a good thought, that was me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If I had a bad thought, that was me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But when I was going to this healing journey and I was going through so many bad thoughts, I had to disconnect and recognize that I'm not these thoughts.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And here's what no one tells you about a anxious mind.
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[SPEAKER_00]: your nervous system when it's stuck in this hypersensitive state, it doesn't affect your body and affects your mind because your nervous system is constantly scanning for danger.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So it will look at all of the bad case scenarios, grab the scariest one and magnify it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: those dark thoughts, those scary intrusive thoughts, they're not a reflection of you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They're just an output of a nervous system, desperately searching for a threat.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Your brain is doing exactly what it's supposed to do, which is protect you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's why it's going through all the bad case scenarios.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Think about it this way.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you had a fever and in that fever, you had strange vivid dreams.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Would you believe those dreams were real?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Would you think those dreams were going to come true and those dreams were who you were?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Of course not.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You'd say, I had a fever.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's not me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's just a fever dream.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This works the exact same way.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's not the thought that's the problem.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's what you do with that thought.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Whether you engage with it, fight it, identify it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's what gives it power.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But instead, if you just recognize it's a thought, it's a silly thought, and you just let it go, what happens is that the adrenaline burns itself off, and that those thoughts end up burning themselves off, and the end of going away without you needing to do anything about it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, the next part is also where a lot of people get stuck, because when you're suffering so deeply,
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's inherent to feel like somehow you're broken and that you need someone external to fix you or you need something to fix you because you're broken.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And this leads me to the next point where a lot of people get stuck, which is you can't outsource your healing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now I want to be very careful on how I say this because I'm not saying not to get help.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Therapy is valuable, coaching is valuable, having a community is valuable, and that's saying suffer alone.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But here's what I'm saying.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Note therapists, no doctor, no coach, no medication can actually do the work for you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: These things are tools.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They're there to help you on the journey.
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[SPEAKER_00]: and I learned this the hard way, because I had been struggling for so long and these symptoms were so uncomfortable, I was desperate to have anyone or anything fixed me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I would try one medication after another, I would go from one doctor to another, one therapist to another, I would read every book and basically follow anyone that claimed they knew what it was to fix this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it wasn't like I didn't learn valuable things I did, but I had to recognize that healing came from within me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I was looking for something external to solve something that was internal.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Here's the truth.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Healing from an anxiety disorder happens from the inside out, not the outside in.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Your nervous system got stuck through a series of internal responses, and it gets unstuck the same way.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Through your response, through your relationship,
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[SPEAKER_00]: nobody can do that for you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: A therapist or coach can show you the door, but you need to be the one walking through it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Once you realize that healing from this is more than just accepting your symptoms, but also taking responsibility over your healing, that's where sure recovery happens.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, if you're wanting to know the full steps of the recovery journey a deep dive, I've created a free masterclass.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It breaks down the principles of healing.
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