I stumbled across this podcast after having it recommended to me by a college professor. Sharing Dr. Robert Leahy’s insight on worry: productive and unproductive, was personable and very insightful to myself, a college student with GAD. What I liked the most was him talking about how far worry could go, and how it is applicable to many disorders that have to do with anxiety and depression. Worry is somewhat normal and happens to everyone and Dr. Leahy explained both kids, as well as sides of the spectrum. There is worry as simple as forgetting a link, to fear of job loss that could lead to homelessness and death by starvation. In addition to insight on the fact that, worry can be unproductive, as you just speak of impending doom that you can’t do anything to fix it at the moment and the opposite. As someone who does want to trench and then eventually possibly go into counseling, I found Dr. Leahy’s appearance on the podcast to be very informative and interesting, only increasing my interest in the field. As a student, this podcast has so many episodes like this one that can be used as teaching tools in the PSYCH environment.

I found this podcast to be incredibly helpful in helping navigate the complications that come along with worrying. As someone who has anxiety, worry is the predominant factor that comes into play when dealing with it. This podcast is incredibly helpful in giving insight about how worry can truly and deeply impact our emotions and mental health. There aren’t many resources that talk about how the simple fact of worry can mainly trigger anxiety, and as Dr.Lehay said, it can often lead to depression if not treated in 6-12 years. It’s great that this podcast highlights worry and how to help with this specifically, so that it can hopefully help it from spiraling and creating a bigger issue. Many people tend to focus on anxiety and how to alleviate the feelings that come with it, however, few focus on the prevention of it, which can be found in the podcast. This podcast successfully explains worrying and its complexities, while also providing ways to improve the way many of us deal with it.

I wanted to listen to this podcast because at times I find myself worrying a little too much about the little things or things out of my control. I felt like listening to this podcast can help me a bit change the way I think or feel about worry. This podcast talks about how people worry everyday about everything. What Dr. Robert Leahy mentions is that people who worry so much might have generalized anxiety disorder that might lead to depression later on in life. I like to listen to podcasts like this because I can relate to some of it based on how they describe what it is like to feel a certain type of way. I find myself relating to this in how I worry about tons of things although I shouldnt. I do have anxiety so it makes sense why I worry so much, I bite my nails when I am anxious or nervous as well as when I am stressed. Dr. Leahy tries to tell us how to deal with worry. He reminds us that people who worry a lot are not alone, there are many people in the world who worry just like us. The interesting thing about these facts is that I am aware of it all but it is hard to help myself but I am able to help others who are going through the same thing. I love to help people and find myself kind of giving therapeutic advice to others. I would like to counsel youth in the future and hopefully use these techniques someday.

This is a topic that interests me and I felt like I needed to learn more about my worries. The guy who does a good job of introducing what worry is; it is repeating negative thoughts due to worrying about something like people getting mad at you, relationship problems, people leaving you for example. The main speaker does a good job of clarifying misconceptions people could have about worry like rumination, and the doctor does a good job of distinguishing the difference. They also talk about worry for a positive reason for example and he calls it productive worry. This podcast changed my view on the concept of worry and helped me to not see it as negatively as I used to. One thing I really enjoyed about this podcast episode was the idea that we as humans find our lives to be fulfilling if we have happiness along with the challenges that give us worry because once we overcome them we learn from them and find value in them. This episode could be used as motivation for upcoming psychology majors because Dr. Leahy comments how you never stop learning in the field of psychology even after you finish your PhD, which is something that makes me happy because I love learning.

This was a very interesting episode to listen to! I appreciated the discussion of of how all encompassing worrying can seem to be, but also the discussion on the useful aspects of worrying. I agree with Dr. Robert's point about how focusing on the present actions you can take to ease your worry is a much more healthy mindset than worrying about things in the far future. A lot of my friends come to me when they're nervous, and this is a method I have used and can continue to use in order to calm them down and make them think clearer. Hopefully in the future I will become a clinical therapist and be able to use these techniques I learned in a more clinical setting to help as many people as possible.

Overall, I love listening to this podcast and I’m found myself very interested in Dr. Robert Leahy’s perspective on worry he even touches base with some of the physical issues that come with worry which I found intriguing. And I found his perspective on productive, worry and unproductive worry mostly interesting , he touches base and explains how to handle them, and I found this, especially positive for me because I could take some of this advice and apply it in times of worry.