Anxiety & Depression

Kelly Wilson, Ph.D., is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Mississippi. He is Past President of the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science and has won the University of Mississipi’s prestigious Elsie M. Hood Outstanding Teacher Award.  Dr. Wilson is one of the co-developers of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and has written several books, including Things Might Go Terribly, Horribly Wrong:  A Guide to Life Liberated from Anxiety.

In this episode, Kelly Wilson and Eric discuss his approach to helping others to become liberated from their anxiety.

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In This Interview, Kelly Wilson and I Discuss Being Liberated from Anxiety and…

• His book, Things Might Go Terribly, Horribly Wrong:  A Guide to Life Liberated from Anxiety.
• Anxiety is not as a disease or that we’re broken
• His past view of vulnerability as being the enemy
• His theory that 1 out of 2 people has experienced some form of suffering or hardship in their life
• How labels can obscure a person
• Before talking about acceptance, one must understand what really matters
• Moving in the direction towards what you love rather than just trying to eliminate symptoms.
• Suffering may be due to how our burden is being carried
• Facing our difficulties is needed to understand what courage and sacrifice look like
• Values and vulnerability are the starting place in therapy
• Identifying what would make the hardest thing worthwhile
• When we don’t know our values, identify where it hurts
• If the burden could be lifted, what would you allow?
• Reclaiming what we value by taking redemptive action
• The next right thing is acknowledging where you’ve been wrong
• Committed action is the next action that brings you back to who you want to be
• It’s all about moving in the right direction, not the distance

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Sarah Wilson is a New York Times Bestselling author, journalist and founder of iquitsugar.com. She has published 15 I Quit Sugar books in 46 countries and in 2017 and 2018, she was ranked as one of the Top 200 Most Influential Authors In The World. At 29, Sarah was the Editor and Chief of Cosmopolitan Magazine Australia and she has also been the host of Master Chef Australia. Her newest book is, First, We Make the Beast Beautiful: A New Journey Through Anxiety and it is this that she and Eric discuss in this episode. 

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In This Interview, Sarah Wilson and I Discuss Anxiety and…

• Her book, First, We Make The Beast Beautiful: A New Journey Through Anxiety
• Where the mind goes, energy flows
• The idea of disconnection and reconnection in mental health
• How to know when the line into disordered anxiety has been crossed
• Understanding the role of medicine for anxiety, depression and other mental illnesses as well as the role of struggle in our inner life.
• The importance and role of therapy while also taking medication for mental disorders
• The dynamic, changing nature of actively supporting mental wellness
• Stopping the cycle of getting anxious about being anxious
• Sitting in your suffering and ride it out rather than trying to beat or escape it
• The slow approach for dealing with Anxiety
• How walking can help Anxiety
• Ways handwriting can help Anxiety
• Ways space can help Anxiety
• Spiritual idea of contraction vs expansion
• Asking yourself “Will this enlarge or contract my life?”

Sarah Wilson Links:

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Brent Williams suffered for a long time from depression and anxiety and during that time he kept a journal about his thoughts, feelings, and experiences. That journal has now been turned in to a beautiful graphic novel called, Out Of The Woods: A Journey Through Depression and Anxiety. In this episode, Brent and Eric use his story as a jumping-off point to discuss how depression can show up in your life and how you can realistically, practically, and effectively find your way out of it.

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In This Interview, Brent Williams and I Discuss…

• His book, Out Of The Woods: A Journey Through Depression and Anxiety
• How subtle depression can be in your life – permeating everything 
• All the things he went to as a diagnosis before he admitted it was depression he was suffering from
• His resistance to taking depression medication
• How he watched his father take medication for anxiety and how it changed him
• His resistance to taking help from others
• His experience in therapy
• The metaphor of depression medication being a life preserver but you still have to swim back to shore
• The components of self-care: eat well, exercise, be with people, be outside, get support, stop ruminating, proper sleep
• How fundamental good nutrition is when it comes to mental well being
• Doing small and manageable things when you’re depressed
• How the reward mechanism in your brain isn’t working properly when you’re depressed
• How it took him a while to find the right therapist 
• The potential danger of meditating when depressed
• That mindfulness meditation was the form of meditating that helped him most
• The impact of keeping a mood chart – seeing a pattern that you can’t see at the time
• That sometimes you just have to push yourself over the hurdle of doing things that are good for you when you don’t feel like doing them
• Looking at your activities to assess your mental wellbeing
• Depression showing up as irritability in men

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Jonathan Rottenberg is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of South Florida where he’s the director of the mood and emotion laboratory. He’s also the author of the book, The Depths:  The Evolutionary Origins of the Depression Epidemic“, which he and Eric have discussed before. In this interview, they discuss some of the studies and research he’s involved with specific to those who go on to flourish after having depression. Why do they? What can we learn from them? There’s hope and practical wisdom in this episode for you.

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In This Interview, Jonathan Rottenberg and I Discuss…

• His book, The Depths: The Evolutionary Origins of the Depression Epidemic
• Thriving after depression
• The studies and research he’s involved with
• People who thrive after depression
• The destructive and recurring nature of depression
• The typical low expectation for those with depression about life moving forward and how it should be different
• What is mental “health”?
• Psychological well being
• Experiencing positive emotions
• Experiencing negative emotions to a lesser degree
• Feeling of balance in life
• Having meaningful relationships
• Feeling a sense of autonomy over your life
• How happy should we expect to be?
• Having elements of wellbeing amidst struggling with depression
• The 3 things that seed a low mood: events, temperaments, and routines
• Rumination
• Ways that people can work with depression more skillfully
• Having a different relationship with your negative thoughts
• Having connections with others
• Research on flourishing
• How much control do we have over our state of flourishing?
• That it’s never too late
• There is hope
• Our culture that idealizes euphoria
• The role of our basic temperament
• Factors of wellbeing other than emotion and mood
• The organization he helped found, Depression Army
• The interesting and transformative experience of depression
• That his depression has been defanged and it doesn’t break the skin anymore

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