Drew Burney

It's not that much.

It's bad enough where people with anxiety don't like to do it.

Yeah.

And for most people with, with anxiety, again, they're just, they're, they're reticent to even go around that or to do that.

So in the emotions episode, we talked about affective labeling and

That can help with emotional regulation for sure.

It's usually a short-term fix though.

It's usually it has a short-term effect.

And so any anxious feelings that you have around it where you label them, yes, that can help you in the moment.

But like long-term, again, you have to have that structured kind of exposure to it.

It's all the things you said.

It's like that combination of everything where it's not just the exposure to it, not just thinking about it, but also like, how am I going to deal with it?

So what that does is it kind of creates this narrative for you that can help you address the anxiety.

That's more of a long-term thing, and it's not a quick fix, which is what most people are looking for when they go to sit down and journal is a quick fix.

Oh, that's it?

Episode over.

Yeah, I think you're right.

You can write about it.

You can write around it without confronting it.

And that's where you can stay in that kind of hell for a long time if you're not careful and you're not aware of it.