Annaka Harris
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1,467 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Oct 2022
last heard Apr 2025
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And in this window where I no longer had postpartum depression and hadn't yet gone off the SSRI, I realized,
that life was not only a lot easier than when I had postpartum, but it was easier than it had ever been.
And it took taking all of that anxiety away to recognize how much I had been grappling with it my entire life.
And it first started coming in the form of realizations like,
oh, is this how other people, is this how other people feel?
Is this how that, like the things that I just always thought of myself, I'm really sensitive.
I'm an introvert.
I need a lot of time to myself.
And all of these things that I felt like, I mean, it's always very high functioning.
And in some ways, you know, I was a professional dancer and I think that was the type of therapy for me.
There was the obsessing over, you know,
the training and dancing nine hours a day and all of that, I now look back on and see how much that was therapeutic for me and that I was kind of treating something.
But yeah, so it was just this experience of treating an anxiety disorder that caused me to realize that I had one.
I didn't know I could feel the way I felt
After taking Prozac.
And I became very interested in... I mean, I was already working with neuroscientists.
I was already interested in consciousness and the brain.
And it just... You know, this kind of rattled other intuitions for me in terms of how our childhoods shape who we become.
Because I had been convinced... My father was...
I was just going to say again, but I think, I mean, so he, he was not diagnosed.
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