Doctor vora: I think the only things worth gate keeping are interventions that can have risks, like medication. The way i think about false anxiety is avoidable anxiety. And if somebody is fully lifelong meeting criteria for generalized anxiety, disorder. Let's talk about it. Let's work with it. If somebody has a subjective identification with the term anxiety, even though a psychiatrist might not diagnose them with anxiety, i say, let's help that person as well.
#367: Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, many commentators have remarked that we’re living in an “epidemic of anxiety.”
More than 40 million Americans suffer from anxiety, and countless millions more notice themselves “acting out” against their responsibilities in smaller, self-sabotaging ways: procrastinating, lacking motivation, grappling with an inability to concentrate.
In today’s episode, Dr. Ellen Vora, M.D., discusses both the internal and environmental factors that can exacerbate anxiety. She talks about nutrition and sleep, as well as the fact that, frankly, your job just might suck.
She applies these ideas to tactics that allow us to better handle our finances, investments, careers and lives.
Dr. Ellen Vora holds a B.A. from Yale University and a medical degree from Columbia University. She’s a board-certified psychiatrist.
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