Anxiety

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Think of anxiety as treading water in deep water. You're doing something to get immediate comfortd, but it's fleeting. Ah, then leads to discomfort, so you're back at b again. It just keeps cyclingso with eg tin anxiety, use this analogy in the book. All you're doing is sitting still, maintaining thi, thi, momentary sense of comfort of i'm prepared. I'm preparing for something. But obviously that's cognitively exhausting and physiologically exhausting too. That's why there's so many physiological components to anxiety.

Dr. Chuck Ruby earned his Ph.D. in 1995 at Florida State University. He is a retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel with 20 years of military service as a criminal, counterintelligence, counterespionage special agent, and investigative psychologist in many capacities across the globe. Following his military career, Dr. Ruby has been a psychologist and coach in private practice.

Chuck's newest book is Smoke and Mirrors: How You Are Being Fooled About Mental Illness - An Insider's Warning to Consumers, which is available now!

Learn more about Chuck at chuckruby.com and about ISEPP at psychintegrity.org.

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