Karen Young
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366 appearances
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first heard Nov 2017
last heard Nov 2017
Karen Young’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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This is why it happens.
It's because her brain's overprotective.
It's not broken.
So there is still some misunderstanding, I suppose, around what it is.
And I suppose one of the things I want to push against is this idea that anxious people, that they're not brave enough or not strong enough because anxious people will be some of the bravest people you'll meet and some of the strongest people you'll meet because they push through this stuff all the time.
But it is a real thing and it is the wiring in their brain triggers anxiety more often than other people.
It's not a bad thing because it can also mean it feels bad, but it can also mean that they're really great planners.
They can think of things that no one else has thought of.
They are really great at predicting trouble.
And if you want to understand what's happening in a classroom or in a social group, ask the one person.
who feels anxious sometimes because they know what's going on because they're thinkers and they you know they can put the pieces together so well and emotionally intelligent and socially intelligent they're really amazing it's not a breakage and it is a physiological thing it's got nothing to do with character and it's got nothing to do with personality so
I think we're slowly opening up to this and saying, well, that's okay.
You know, it's just a different way of being human.
It's not breakage, but there's still a way to go.
And it's very common.
It's so common.
And I think that's one of the things we're starting to realise is how common it is now, which has surprised me.
And I think it surprises a lot of people.
yeah so look at things um a lot of avoidance behavior and that might be connected to a particular thing so i don't feel like going to school today and it might be i've got a tummy ache or i've got a headache or something like that and it's not that's not doing it to be naughty not at all it's because their brain's telling them they can't go
Look at things like tummy aches that don't have another physical basis, headaches that don't have another physical basis, nausea, I feel sick in the tummy, because they're all the physical symptoms that come with that surging of neurochemicals.
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