Aug 7, 2026 · 46 min · 15 segments
Anxiety recovery attracts an entire industry, and not all of it is safe. This week we talk about popular but dangerous anxiety cures, the methods and trends that get recommended constantly but that…
Yeah, you were inspired, weren't you? You, you, you asked, um, the community a while back, like, what's some of the things that were actually quite harmful-
when you were initially, uh, out there, and some of the reactions and people's interpretations of your anxiety disorders.
... and there's, you had a lot, you had a big list and then loads of different answers.
I asked my Instagram audience, I mean, this is a couple of months ago, but I thought about, I remembered it this morning.
I'm like, "Hey, we could do an episode on this." And yeah, a ton of people, I had, like, over 100 responses on that.
What, did you have anything that was, like, told that this is definitely, you gotta do this, but it actually caused more of a problem than anything else?
It was, it was going to therapists who are hellbent on pinning all my feelings on trauma.
Not dismissing trauma and stuff like that, but they, they thought that if I got to the root of my history and mommy and daddy issues and all that stuff, that my panic attacks and fear of fear would go away, and it made me worse.
Do you know how, like, some people with OCD get, like, contamination things? Like, have I contaminated stuff? I had a version of that where I thought there was trauma stuck in the fascia of my...
And 'cause I had all these people tell me, utterly convinced, you know, "Oh, I've read Peter Levine's book and he says this." Well, th- there's no evidence of that, but I believed it and, uh-
It's like, "No, it gets worse before it gets better," and I was just like, "No, this gets worse." Now, don't get me wrong, I have had trauma treatment.
Yeah, you were inspired, weren't you? You, you, you asked, um, the community a while back, like, what's some of the things that were actually quite harmful-
when you were initially, uh, out there, and some of the reactions and people's interpretations of your anxiety disorders.
... and there's, you had a lot, you had a big list and then loads of different answers.
I asked my Instagram audience, I mean, this is a couple of months ago, but I thought about, I remembered it this morning.
I'm like, "Hey, we could do an episode on this." And yeah, a ton of people, I had, like, over 100 responses on that.
What, did you have anything that was, like, told that this is definitely, you gotta do this, but it actually caused more of a problem than anything else?
It was, it was going to therapists who are hellbent on pinning all my feelings on trauma.
Not dismissing trauma and stuff like that, but they, they thought that if I got to the root of my history and mommy and daddy issues and all that stuff, that my panic attacks and fear of fear would go away, and it made me worse.
Do you know how, like, some people with OCD get, like, contamination things? Like, have I contaminated stuff? I had a version of that where I thought there was trauma stuck in the fascia of my...
And 'cause I had all these people tell me, utterly convinced, you know, "Oh, I've read Peter Levine's book and he says this." Well, th- there's no evidence of that, but I believed it and, uh-
It's like, "No, it gets worse before it gets better," and I was just like, "No, this gets worse." Now, don't get me wrong, I have had trauma treatment.
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