Psychedelics are just an exceptional mental health breakthrough. It's quite fascinating how effective they are against depression and anxiety. Saved my life.

@elizabethwilliams6651

20 күн бұрын

Can you help with the reliable source I would really appreciate it. Many people talk about mushrooms and psychedelics but nobody talks about where to get them. Very hard to get a reliable source here in Australia. Really need!

@steceymorgan814

20 күн бұрын

Yes, dr.larks I have the same experience with anxiety, depression, PTSD and addiction and Mushrooms definitely made a huge huge difference to why am clean today.

@patriaciasmith3499

20 күн бұрын

Anxiety happens when you think you have to figure out everything all at once. Breathe. You're strong. You got this Take it day by day.

@elizabethwilliams6651

20 күн бұрын

Is he on instagram?

@steceymorgan814

20 күн бұрын

Yes he is. dr.larks

You got it. I have had overwhelm freeze/anhedonia/future fear for a year now. It rides on a long lifetime of cPTSD. Complicated.

I get angry and then cry. Then I'm pissed because I cried.

This video just appeared in my in-box and I can't tell you how serendipitous that is. What tips me over is animal suffering and this dog has been crying for hours two days in a row. And it's a puppy tied on a four foot chain. Awful, and in this heat! Understand, this situation has come on the heels of a rodent infestation and trying to find the most humane methods for trapping, a landlord who is out of town, and a skunk that somehow got into the crawl space. I have CPTSD and the freeze response is exactly how this overwhelm feels. Of course I'm overwhelmed. I have very little support in my life. Haven't felt this overwhelmed in a long long time. It's very helpful to think of overwhelm as part of the freeze response and I did have the presence of mind to text a friend, and turn on some Zen flute music and listen to The Kiffness to remind myself that there is goodness in the world. Called the police and told them about the dog situation. But, I also offered to foster this dog and fave absolutely no business doing that and will swallow my pride and tell them I changed my mind if it comes to that. I simply don't have the resources or capacity., but panic sometimes makes me try to be superwoman. Thankfully we have a no kill shelter in town. Going forward, I'm going to tape some of the things you mentioned on my refrigerator to remember I'm not a bad person and that I can cope in small steps. And yes, it's hard being human, and trauma just pushes all the buttons. Thank you for what you do!

Overwhelm for me results in flight response, procrastination, which makes things worse. Thank you for the NCB reminder here and this video.

I get overwhelm from sabotaging myself with too much to do.I take on too many responsibilities that I truly do not need to do which cause my anxiety. The unrealistic expectations I put on myself as a child growing up with a narcissistic parent is where it started. Yes, I need to step aside spend time with God calm my insides and let go of tasks and wasteful conversations giving up energy and take care of me. Love your videos! Thank you!

often it is unclear what priority or urgency to assign a task - this too can quickly overwhelm you. When you can't think clearly - when your higher cognitive function is blocked by emotional affect, you become overwhelmed also by the inability to prioritize - which relies on higher cognitive function. The more unable to think you become - the higher the stress factor which exacerbates your cognitive deficit and so on until you shut down.

I really liked that dialogue of "I am an ok human being who just have too much to do". Also, just remembering that I am safe enough and those tasks may not be truly urgent. You always make it so simple yet so substantial. It just makes sense. Thank you

I love the fact that you have decided to create this channel to reach people worldwide. It has reached me in Bolivia and it has helped me enrich my CBT therapy process in overcoming panic disorder, generalized anxiety and depression.

I needed more money, I started a side hustle/second job, I got overwhelmed and I felt really ill, it only went away when I quit, same happened when I went to university. Moral of the story is, aim low and don't feel overwhelmed I guess

Thanks again for this timely video. I am very familiar with the freeze response. Sometimes, it is literally like being a rabbit caught in the headlights. There is the sense of not being able to move forward or backwards. Instead of having the mental wherewithal to come up with a plan to get on to of things, as you mention, the whole questioning of the future begins to kick in. The brain starts to then think about the worst outcomes possible. Falling into such a state of mind can be soul crushing. I look forward to seeing your video next week regarding overcommitting, another of my failings.

Thankyou so much for explaining this. It makes sense now.

Thank you very much for this video. The over-commitment video will be really interesting.

One of your best videos yet!

@BarbaraHeffernan

Ай бұрын

Wow, thanks!

This is an extraordinary and original perspective. Thank you. Never throught of Overwhelm as Freeze Response. I think Gabor Mate felt there were four responses - Fight-Flight-Freeze-Fawn. He added the last one as he saw it as important dysfunctional behaviour of fawning as a response as People Pleasing.

The small triggers are like, "the straw that 'breaks' the camel's back."

@BarbaraHeffernan

Ай бұрын

Agreed!

That's so true specially with Adhd patients. Can u make a video for adhd people? Thx

My learned skills to deal with overwhelm have been helpful...to a point. I took notes, especially about the Eisenhower Matrix and your 'improvement' to it. As one who still struggles with an early childhood negative mindset, I am open to all helpful suggestions. Thank you.

@BarbaraHeffernan

Ай бұрын

Wondering what you think of the "improvement." I just think we are too prone to think of everything as "urgent" unless we pause... Hope this is helpful!

@stevec404

Ай бұрын

@@BarbaraHeffernan - Very helpful. I now understand that my overwhelm consists of a lot of 'time-sensitive' tasks, not 'urgent' ones. It gives a welcome new perspective to what was a seemingly intractable circumstance.

Thank you for valuable information.

Wow. This is extremely helpful to me and also came at the time I needed it. Thank you!

Can't thank you more, Ma'am you know, I got this video when I needed this advice the most... You're such an angel to me... Ya Allah thank you...

This was so helpful

I love the Eisenhower matrix. I really need to use that regularly. I just discovered your videos, and they all apply to me. I'm hooked! Thank you!!

SUPER helpful! Thank you so much, really timely for me to hear this as I've been dealing with overwhelm a lot lately. Cant wait for your next vid on overcommitting!

EXTREMELY HELPFUL!

@BarbaraHeffernan

Ай бұрын

So pleased! Thanks for letting me know!

I have really, really bad anxiety and panic attacks.And I'm a People, please are.Just I have a lot of exciting and I overtake things and I i just need you're Help my husband is a narcissist and I am going crazy.I need your focus The good is me.I'm losing everything about me and I'm sent you video on KZread and I've seen you before, but never get listened to you till today.Maybe I know this Don't go with what you're talking about.But you seem like a really smart woman. I just need help standing up for myself

@susannay.3437

Ай бұрын

I'm so sorry you're going through this. I too have a husband who's dang toxic. I'm in the middle, I suppose, with being a people pleaser; well, maybe closer to 70%. It's good to have emotional support and a financial backup he's completely unaware of. Don't worry: one step at a time. Reading the psalms has also been comforting to me. THERE'S a guy (David) who had problems! Some, brought on by his own doing; others, as a victim. Blessings to you. 🥲 And prayers.❤

Thank you for this information, I don’t recall anyone explaining overwhelms, freeze response and anxiety in this way, this was definitely one of those light 💡 moments for me. Now I understand better why I often shut down when I have so much I need to do …. Shutting down actually makes things worse because my anxiety/feeling of guilt gets heightened then that makes me feeling worse about myself. It’s bad cycles. I am definitely going to try to calm my nerves system/ body down. I know it helps when I have anxiety/panic attacks so I think it will help for overwhelm too now that I know it’s anxiety. Thank you 🙏

@BarbaraHeffernan

Ай бұрын

Wonderful! Yes, this key point can really help!

Can you do a video talking about agoraphobia?? I’ve been struggling for 5 years and it’s like I’m in a cage I cannot get myself out of my life is very limited

do you offer supervision for therapists?

What happened?! Did someone leave the safety fence open?!

It's hell.it's like I'm dying.help.😓

8:12 the audio cuts out here but it randomly cuts out once in a while and it makes it hard to listen to your videos 😢 Maybe get your microphone checked out ?

There are 5 stress responses. Fight, flight,freez, fawn, flop. Flop is the most uncommon but most severe response.

This was great! Waiting for your next one on why people overcommit 🥹 thank you❤