Mike Carruthers

He's a clinical psychologist and author of the book, The Stress Solution.

And I think when you listen to him, you'll have a better understanding of what stress really is, what it does, and how to manage it and control it better.

Hey, Arthur, welcome.

So everyone knows that feeling of stress, but how do you define it?

What is it exactly?

And so when you say it's distorted, but if I'm in a stressful situation, what I'm seeing is what I'm seeing.

But that stress reaction that we all get when we're in that situation must be serving a purpose.

And we've all heard about, you know, the tiger chasing the caveman kind of thing, that it serves that purpose of protecting yourself.

Has it outlived its purpose?

So this way of thinking where we, I guess, we overthink and we think things that aren't true and all of that, it would be great to be able to sit back and say, well, now calm down.

You know, this is just me and my stressful moment here.

But in the moment, it's extremely hard to do.

And so how do you start this process?

What do you do first to kind of get a sense of what you're talking about?

So can you give me an idea of how, maybe in an example, that would work?

But what about stress that is self-created, self-imposed?

There's no other person to have empathy for.

It's all in our head.

So, Arthur, what is the connection between stress and worry?

They seem to go hand in hand.