S1.E2 - Let's get Physical, Physical...about Anxiety - My Brain Está Spicy

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Hello and welcome to another episode of My Brain Esta Spicy.
The podcast where two overthinking, sometimes anxiety ridden friends spill on their highs and lows and the craziness of navigating mental health in our daily lives. 3 00:00:15,949.999 --> 00:00:18,400 We are your hosts, Melisa and Christy. 4 00:00:18,559.999 --> 00:00:19,269.999 I'm Christy.
She's Melisa. 6 00:00:20,559.999 --> 00:00:31,630 And as always, we are going to be talking about the beautiful chaos of life with spicy brains and inject this safe space with as much humor and our unique sazon as we can.

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And with that, here we go. 14 00:01:05,508.163265306 --> 00:01:13,268.082081003 Okay so today's episode is about our good friend Anxiety and all of it's fun physical attributes. 15 00:01:13,268.082081003 --> 00:01:14,874.829931973 We all deal with it, whether we're aware of it or not. 16 00:01:14,964.829931973 --> 00:01:17,344.829931973 Anxiety does affect all of us. 17 00:01:17,564.829931973 --> 00:01:25,844.828931973 So today, we're going to go over a bit about how it shows up for each one of us and some of the things we do individually to kind of move through it. 18 00:01:27,513.015044994 --> 00:01:31,713.015044994 Sorry, I was writing something down like another thing I use. 19 00:01:32,103.015044994 --> 00:01:32,283.015044994 Okay. 20 00:01:33,533.015044994 --> 00:01:34,43.015044994 Sorry. 21 00:01:34,203.015044994 --> 00:01:34,613.015044994 I'm sorry, haha. 22 00:01:36,128.743306979 --> 00:01:36,998.743306979 No, it's cool. 23 00:01:37,558.743306979 --> 00:01:39,38.743306979 You know, we're all about real life. 24 00:01:39,98.743306979 --> 00:01:40,238.74330698 So folks, Yeah ...you 25 00:01:40,238.74330698 --> 00:01:43,828.74330698 are getting a real insight into what us creating a podcast sounds like. 26 00:01:43,828.74330698 --> 00:01:44,152.07664031 So enjoy this. 27 00:01:44,152.07664031 --> 00:01:46,806.07564031 Ok I'm sorry, I was notes. 28 00:01:47,86.07564031 --> 00:01:57,36.07664031 I feel like Harry Potter, in the first Harry Potter, when Snape is like, doing his intro of like, I can teach you how to put a stopper in death. 29 00:01:57,296.07664031 --> 00:02:08,291.07664031 And then he's like looking at Harry like, Uh, but there's people who aren't paying attention, and I know somebody who's listening to this podcast is like "That's not the exact line" but whatever, like, that's the idea. 30 00:02:08,891.07664031 --> 00:02:11,831.07664031 And then, poor Harry is just writing fucking notes. 31 00:02:12,571.07664031 --> 00:02:17,132.07664031 He's literally, like, writing the notes of, like, He's being a good student. 32 00:02:17,132.07664031 --> 00:02:22,110.97664031 "In potions class we're gonna learn how to put a stopper to death." 33 00:02:22,111.07664031 --> 00:02:28,216.07664031 Like, you're just writing down his, like, little, his Narcissistic monologue, but okay, go off, whatever. 34 00:02:28,276.07664031 --> 00:02:32,896.07664031 Anyway, sorry, going into this episode now, you can cut all of that. 35 00:02:33,282.84330698 --> 00:02:35,578.74330698 Oh no, I'm keeping a majority of that, that was great. 36 00:02:36,319.40997365 --> 00:02:36,759.40997365 All right. 37 00:02:36,759.40997365 --> 00:02:41,719.40997365 Anxiety isn't just in our heads, our bodies love to get involved too. 38 00:02:42,49.40997365 --> 00:02:49,149.40997365 From racing hearts to jelly legs, today we're diving into the weirdest ways our spicy brains tend to mess with our bodies. 39 00:02:49,478.74330698 --> 00:02:52,928.74330698 Yup, because nothing says, I'm totally fine. 40 00:02:52,928.74330698 --> 00:02:55,38.74330698 Totally fine, nothing's wrong. 41 00:02:55,128.74330698 --> 00:02:58,48.74330698 Like sweating through your t shirt at a grocery store. 42 00:02:58,398.74330698 --> 00:02:59,858.74330698 For no reason. 43 00:03:00,188.74330698 --> 00:03:02,798.74330698 I have done this, I am speaking from experience. 44 00:03:03,62.07564031 --> 00:03:17,248.74280698 So with that, Christy, why don't you walk us through the ways that you see anxiety present itself in your body, not just now, like how you deal with it now, or how you see it come up, but also how you've seen it kind of come up in the past. 45 00:03:17,278.74280698 --> 00:03:17,558.74280698 Yeah. 46 00:03:18,68.74280698 --> 00:03:26,454.40897365 So, I've been dealing with anxiety without going into my origin story for, well, my whole life, really. 47 00:03:26,454.40997365 --> 00:03:30,784.40997365 When you have anxiety, it's something that's with you forever. 48 00:03:30,944.40997365 --> 00:03:37,774.40997365 It's just part of how your mind works, but real, you know, diagnosed anxiety for like 15 years. 49 00:03:37,784.40997365 --> 00:03:46,814.40997365 So way that it's presented itself physically has transformed as I've gone through my journey. 50 00:03:46,814.40997365 --> 00:04:08,689.40997365 Which is insidious and annoying as fuck, because when you conquer one symptom, it tends to jump to something else that's also like, a weak point, but just something you're, in the back of your head, you're just, somehow afraid of or not sure about. 51 00:04:08,689.40997365 --> 00:04:20,139.40997365 So to answer the question, um, the first, the first physical symptom I ever had was a hundred percent GI symptoms. 52 00:04:20,149.40997365 --> 00:04:23,799.40997365 So for me, that looks like nausea. 53 00:04:24,119.40997365 --> 00:04:27,939.40997365 And I have, I believe it's called a emetaphobia. 54 00:04:28,239.40997365 --> 00:04:30,689.40997365 Basically, like, fear of throwing up. 55 00:04:30,699.40997365 --> 00:04:33,89.40997365 I I even hate saying, like, I hate saying the word. 56 00:04:33,89.40997365 --> 00:04:33,399.40997365 It's just bleh. 57 00:04:34,269.40997365 --> 00:04:36,209.40997365 I just, I hate it. 58 00:04:36,259.40997365 --> 00:04:37,869.40897365 I have a a true fear. 59 00:04:37,869.40997365 --> 00:04:42,769.40897365 I will sell my soul down the river to the devil himself not to not to. 60 00:04:43,579.40997365 --> 00:04:48,919.40997365 I I can't, like, I can probably count on on fingers. 61 00:04:48,979.40997365 --> 00:04:50,639.40997365 I, like, there's a reason I don't. 62 00:04:51,364.40997365 --> 00:04:54,774.40997365 There's multiple reasons I don't really drink, but like, that's also one of them. 63 00:04:54,804.40997365 --> 00:04:57,4.40997365 Like, I don't, I am terrified... 64 00:04:57,4.40997365 --> 00:04:57,124.40997365 Gotcha. 65 00:04:57,124.40997365 --> 00:05:05,174.40997365 I check the cooking level of chicken that I eat because I, like, my husband can't speak to this. 66 00:05:05,184.40997365 --> 00:05:08,934.40997365 Like, it is, it's, it's not, it's not. 67 00:05:08,994.40997365 --> 00:05:12,624.40897365 Anyway, so GI symptoms is my first symptom. 68 00:05:13,154.40897365 --> 00:05:35,109.40997365 Um, so nausea, not feeling hungry, which, um, is horrible because really to feel, for me to feel better, I have to eat, I have to hydrate, I have to kind of, and I'll, I'll go through how I help myself through these feelings, but it's, it's just annoying. 69 00:05:35,129.40897365 --> 00:05:37,491.07664031 And it's one of the, biggest and worst symptoms. 70 00:05:37,521.07664031 --> 00:05:46,891.07664031 Another big symptom that was a huge part of my life when I started really battling anxiety and was like debating whether or not to do medication. 71 00:05:47,221.07664031 --> 00:05:51,771.07564031 And in the end I decided to do medication, it's a personal choice. 72 00:05:52,201.07564031 --> 00:05:55,671.07564031 I do not, you know, you, if you're on medication, great. 73 00:05:55,811.07564031 --> 00:05:59,891.07564031 If you're not great, like I cool either way, no judgment. 74 00:06:01,816.07664031 --> 00:06:09,409.40997365 The next symptom is breathing, which you're going, okay, but you're a human being, like you're breathing, if you're not breathing you're dead. 75 00:06:10,59.40997365 --> 00:06:16,879.40997365 But there's something really powerful about breathing and feeling like you can't, even when you can. 76 00:06:17,249.40997365 --> 00:06:27,959.40997365 So for me, it felt like, feels like, someone holding my sternum, and like squeezing it, or just like, like an elephant sitting on me. 77 00:06:28,349.40897365 --> 00:06:40,649.40997365 Um, and I can breathe, I'm breathing, but I'm probably hyperventilating, because I'm just, it's, it's the feeling, and it's It's a feeling that would just, when it was at its worst, I was feeling it all day, every day. 78 00:06:40,899.40997365 --> 00:06:42,499.40997365 And it was all that was in my head. 79 00:06:42,939.40997365 --> 00:06:45,619.40997365 And the only break I got was sleep. 80 00:06:46,49.40997365 --> 00:06:50,189.40997365 And like, I would wake up and be like "Oh shit, there's the feeling again. 81 00:06:50,289.40997365 --> 00:06:50,889.40997365 I can't breathe." 82 00:06:50,999.40997365 --> 00:07:08,829.40997365 Like, it's, it's, it took a lot of time for me to, again, I'll go through this later, but like, how I talked myself down from those episodes, cause it's still, 15 years later, sometimes when anxiety is just, it happened to me actually in December. 83 00:07:09,519.40997365 --> 00:07:16,94.40997365 Because that time of year is horrible for me at work and it's just high, high levels of stress. 84 00:07:16,534.40997365 --> 00:07:24,824.40997365 So it popped up again and I was really shocked because it hadn't been a thing for me in a while, but it stuck around for like two, three days. 85 00:07:24,834.40897365 --> 00:07:34,4.40997365 And I was just like, okay, I have to like really take care of myself and like, you know, do my, use the tools that I've gathered over the years. 86 00:07:35,34.40997365 --> 00:07:49,519.40997365 And finally kind of the third set of symptoms I wanted to talk about, was more what I've been dealing with recently, which is like dizziness, vertigo, lightheadedness, um, just generally feeling unbalanced. 87 00:07:49,879.40997365 --> 00:08:10,984.40897365 And that type of symptom, symptom specifically, has, I feel very, I mean, all of it has very close ties to your nervous system, to your levels of actual like hormones and stress and cortisol and all the fun things that you get to learn as, as you journey through. 88 00:08:10,984.40897365 --> 00:08:13,794.40947365 So those are like my main ones. 89 00:08:14,324.40947365 --> 00:08:25,499.40897365 I will say that I do also, if I'm panicking, so I'm having a panic attack, which tends to be shorter and more, like acute, than an anxiety attack. 90 00:08:25,499.40897365 --> 00:08:41,966.07614031 Anxiety, at least in my head, like, that's how I kind of categorize them, why not categorize something that is only happening in my head? But for a panic attack, it's more like I get this ice in my veins feeling. 91 00:08:42,346.07614031 --> 00:08:48,567.07664031 I don't know if you've ever had, have you ever had like IV contrast put for like a CT scan or something? Yup. 92 00:08:48,887.07664031 --> 00:08:50,438.07714031 It's, it's Very familiar. 93 00:08:50,507.07714031 --> 00:08:52,347.07714031 It's, it's exactly like that. 94 00:08:52,597.07714031 --> 00:08:54,457.07714031 Well except you don't feel like you're peeing yourself. 95 00:08:54,457.07714031 --> 00:08:55,387.07714031 That's, that's not. 96 00:08:55,747.07714031 --> 00:09:03,137.07714031 That's a totally other conversation which we could talk about because I do have pelvic floor dysfunction, but we don't have to talk about that right now because that's not what this podcast is about. 97 00:09:04,277.07714031 --> 00:09:05,397.07614031 So back to Ice and the veins... 98 00:09:05,397.07614031 --> 00:09:17,788.07714031 For those of you that are listening, I wish you guys could see what we looked like on film at the moment, because it is taking every ounce of my composure to not crack up watching her talk about this. 99 00:09:18,373.07714031 --> 00:09:29,983.07714031 Cause as she lovingly likes to put it, my face is loud and her face is making all of the best character portrayals of everything that she is describing. 100 00:09:29,983.07714031 --> 00:09:30,743.07614031 It's fantastic. 101 00:09:30,763.07714031 --> 00:09:36,843.07714031 One day we might switch to, you know, a video podcast as well, but for now I am enjoying this for all of us. 102 00:09:37,512.07714031 --> 00:09:38,222.07714031 Well, thank you. 103 00:09:38,552.07714031 --> 00:09:41,872.07714031 I, I, yeah, I, I have a loud face. 104 00:09:42,932.07714031 --> 00:09:45,712.07714031 I like to think of myself as like Dorothy from Golden Girls. 105 00:09:45,772.07614031 --> 00:09:48,682.07714031 Level of like face, facial reactions. 106 00:09:49,42.07614031 --> 00:09:52,263.07714031 She's like, it's Oh, I got to get that on a shirt for you. 107 00:09:52,747.07714031 --> 00:09:54,647.07714031 I, I've seen, they have memes of it. 108 00:09:54,647.07714031 --> 00:10:03,617.07664031 I'm sure it's, they sell it on, I'm sure, I'm sure I will get an ad for a shirt with Dorothy's fucking face on it now on Instagram because, because we're talking about it. 109 00:10:03,617.07664031 --> 00:10:16,357.07714031 But anyway, um, yeah, my final one I wanted to talk about was the ice in the veins feeling like that truly it now having felt it so many times, I know what it is. 110 00:10:16,377.07714031 --> 00:10:24,97.07714031 But when you're starting out with feeling anxiety, like, and panicking, it feels like fucking death. 111 00:10:24,322.07714031 --> 00:10:26,962.07714031 It feels like you're dying, especially panic attacks. 112 00:10:27,12.07714031 --> 00:10:37,772.07714031 And I still deal with that question of like, "Okay am I dying now? Like, this is it, right? This is, this is the chest pain that is gonna, gonna do it. 113 00:10:37,952.07614031 --> 00:10:39,232.07614031 This one is different. 114 00:10:39,332.07614031 --> 00:10:40,92.07614031 This is it. 115 00:10:40,312.07614031 --> 00:10:41,332.07614031 This is THE ONE. 116 00:10:41,458.12174122 --> 00:10:44,358.62491582 So that's a little summary of all the things I've felt. 117 00:10:44,648.62491582 --> 00:10:48,458.62491582 I mean, there's also, those are just like, kind of general categories. 118 00:10:48,458.62491582 --> 00:10:51,718.62391582 I've, I've felt, if you've felt it, I've felt it, probably. 119 00:10:51,968.62491582 --> 00:10:52,928.62491582 I could speak to it. 120 00:10:53,158.62491582 --> 00:10:55,598.62491582 Like, that is, I've been here a while. 121 00:10:56,58.62491582 --> 00:10:57,538.62391582 I've been doing this for a while. 122 00:10:57,648.62491582 --> 00:11:05,58.62491582 So it's, yeah, and my brain is so fun that if I hear a symptom, I can probably start feeling it... 123 00:11:05,58.62491582 --> 00:11:05,718.62491582 You spiral. 124 00:11:05,768.62491582 --> 00:11:06,88.62491582 ...within 125 00:11:06,108.62491582 --> 00:11:06,748.62491582 a day or. 126 00:11:07,138.62491582 --> 00:11:27,218.62491582 Yeah, like, just, yeah, we actually have a, and after this I will kick it back to you because I've been talking too much, but, um, we have an employee in my company who sadly has, I, I work in human resources by the way, so I, get to learn about people's stuff, um. 127 00:11:27,548.62491582 --> 00:11:33,858.62491582 But has a benign brain tumor and suffers from like dizzyness and vertigo. 128 00:11:34,358.62491582 --> 00:11:37,278.62491582 So when I learned about that, y'all. 129 00:11:37,408.62491582 --> 00:11:42,268.62391582 And I've been experiencing this like dizziness and vertigo stuff. 130 00:11:42,782.00317514 --> 00:11:48,602.00317514 It took a while for me to like, unconvince myself "That's it you have a brain tumor, like that's what's happening." 131 00:11:48,758.00217514 --> 00:11:50,778.00217514 Yeah, your health anxiety kicked into overdrive. 132 00:11:50,778.00217514 --> 00:11:51,568.00217514 Exactly. 133 00:11:51,838.00217514 --> 00:12:03,252.00317514 And so, when you have, I don't know how much of what I feel in terms of anxiety is generalized anxiety disorder or OCD. 134 00:12:03,252.00317514 --> 00:12:06,257.00317514 I have both, so, I don't know where the line is. 135 00:12:06,297.00317514 --> 00:12:07,247.00317514 I don't think there is one. 136 00:12:07,247.00317514 --> 00:12:12,67.00317514 It just like crisscrosses and it's all about intrusive thoughts that just go on the hamster wheel and don't stop. 137 00:12:12,67.00317514 --> 00:12:27,888.00317514 So, um, I'm gonna stop talking now and I'm gonna ask you, what are the physical symptoms that you struggle with or you've experienced on your, on your journey so far? Well, thank you, Christy. 138 00:12:27,908.00317514 --> 00:12:29,198.00317514 I appreciate that segue. 139 00:12:29,198.00317514 --> 00:12:29,958.00317514 You're welcome. 140 00:12:30,8.00317514 --> 00:12:31,518.00317514 Don't know why I switched to that voice. 141 00:12:31,548.00317514 --> 00:12:31,928.00317514 Anyways. 142 00:12:32,298.00317514 --> 00:12:37,558.00217514 It's crazy how so few of us realize we share a lot in common when it comes to things like this. 143 00:12:37,618.00317514 --> 00:12:39,78.00317514 Um, anxiety. 144 00:12:39,658.00317514 --> 00:12:46,88.00317514 It, it has its generalized, diagnosis and a lot of people share a lot of the same symptoms. 145 00:12:46,408.00317514 --> 00:12:51,308.00217514 So pretty much every single one that you mentioned, I, I'm pretty much hit with as well. 146 00:12:51,538.00317514 --> 00:12:59,148.00317514 Um, I don't have the gastro one so much, or at least for me, I don't correlate. 147 00:12:59,978.00417514 --> 00:13:02,188.00417514 Gastrointestinal issues to my anxiety. 148 00:13:02,618.00417514 --> 00:13:05,348.00417514 Like you, my anxiety has changed through the years. 149 00:13:05,348.00417514 --> 00:13:17,88.00417514 As I was preparing for our episode today, I was like trying to think back to how I saw anxiety present itself, um, through the years, even trying to think back to childhood. 150 00:13:17,188.00417514 --> 00:13:21,728.00317514 You mentioned, you know you've been on this ride about 15 years, officially diagnosed. 151 00:13:22,168.00317514 --> 00:13:27,678.00317514 Um, I've only been on it for 4 years officially diagnosed. 152 00:13:28,108.00317514 --> 00:13:33,768.00317514 But, you know, as you start to heal and you start to learn, then, you know, you can kind of go back and kind of think about things. 153 00:13:33,768.00317514 --> 00:13:42,577.90217514 So, for me, like, thinking back to when I was younger, um, and in college or high school and college, for me, intense anger. 154 00:13:43,28.00217514 --> 00:13:45,568.00217514 Uh, was a big 1 that I would get from time to time. 155 00:13:46,268.00217514 --> 00:13:50,878.00217514 Um, and it was basically me not being able to know how to process the fact that I was anxious. 156 00:13:51,328.00217514 --> 00:13:54,748.00217514 For me, it presents itself a lot when I feel like my voice is not being heard. 157 00:13:54,998.00117514 --> 00:13:57,348.00117514 That's a lot of the times when anxiety comes up for me a lot. 158 00:13:57,808.00117514 --> 00:14:04,768.00117514 Uh, another physical trait for me, like you said, heart racing and difficulty breathing. 159 00:14:05,168.00117514 --> 00:14:13,48.00017514 For me, the difficulty breathing part, it feels like my breath is stuck right in the middle of my chest. 160 00:14:13,388.00017514 --> 00:14:19,38.00117514 I can breathe, but I don't feel like my lungs really get a chance to fully expand. 161 00:14:19,38.10117514 --> 00:14:23,458.00117514 Um, and you and I are both singers or you still are. 162 00:14:23,548.00117514 --> 00:14:25,458.00117514 I used to be a singer when we were in high school together. 163 00:14:25,458.00117514 --> 00:14:27,548.00117514 No, no, once a singer, always a singer. 164 00:14:27,859.00117514 --> 00:14:28,259.00117514 I get you. 165 00:14:28,453.00217514 --> 00:14:31,13.00217514 So our lung capacity is, is good from that. 166 00:14:31,13.00217514 --> 00:14:33,263.00217514 I also used to be a swimmer when I was younger. 167 00:14:33,263.00217514 --> 00:14:36,323.00217514 So again, lung capacity, pretty expansive. 168 00:14:36,723.00217514 --> 00:14:45,198.00217514 So for someone who has that ability inately, to not be able to breathe or feel like you can't breathe fully. 169 00:14:46,358.00217514 --> 00:14:50,228.00217514 That just makes the anxiety all that much worse, triggers a panic attack, so on and so forth. 170 00:14:50,338.00217514 --> 00:15:04,427.00117514 I also feel like, you know when you get sick and your throat starts to Like the you feel like the cold and your infection is like right in your throat for me It feels like I have an orange sitting in my throat yes. 171 00:15:04,503.00117514 --> 00:15:09,253.00117514 And I can't swallow and I can't fully take down air. 172 00:15:09,763.00117514 --> 00:15:11,703.00117514 So that is not fun. 173 00:15:12,93.00217514 --> 00:15:29,713.00217514 Uh the worst Anxiety attack I ever had which and this will bleed slightly into my origin story and i'll only mention it just because It helps kind of describe everything that i'm saying um, which was the second visit That I ended up having to take to the hospital because of panic attack. 174 00:15:30,123.00217514 --> 00:15:34,753.00217514 Um, I basically took in too much CO2. 175 00:15:35,453.00117514 --> 00:15:38,83.00217514 I didn't realize that I was hyperventilating. 176 00:15:38,713.00217514 --> 00:15:41,153.00217514 Apparently my body just started doing it on its own. 177 00:15:41,153.00217514 --> 00:15:42,313.00217514 It was very, very subtle. 178 00:15:42,793.00217514 --> 00:15:45,823.00217514 I was sitting on the couch and all of a sudden I just started feeling really frigging weird. 179 00:15:45,963.00217514 --> 00:15:49,903.00217514 And the EMTs who came to the house basically described it to us. 180 00:15:50,3.00217514 --> 00:15:54,453.00217514 I basically suffered from what's called hypercapnia. 181 00:15:54,483.00217514 --> 00:16:03,473.00217514 So you basically taking too much CO2 and your body can't process it and can't process the oxygen that needs to come into your body to kind of settle you down. 182 00:16:03,603.00217514 --> 00:16:04,773.00217514 So that's fun. 183 00:16:05,433.00217514 --> 00:16:16,443.00217514 Um, and then the other one that I tend to feel sometimes, I only feel this when it's really, really bad or I'm very, very stressed. 184 00:16:17,313.00217514 --> 00:16:23,173.00117514 I sweat Oh yeah, and I will sweat through an entire shirt. 185 00:16:23,183.00117514 --> 00:16:28,33.00217514 And it's weird because I will be sitting, absolutely nothing. 186 00:16:28,683.00217514 --> 00:16:42,163.0021751 Like, we're sitting on the couch or I'm in the car with my husband and we're on our way to go somewhere to do something fun, even, and all of a sudden, mm like, Oh, great, I've sweat through my shirt. 187 00:16:42,173.0011751 --> 00:16:45,833.0016751 Apparently, I'm, yeah, I'm suffering anxiety. 188 00:16:45,833.0016751 --> 00:17:25,693.0011751 My, my funniest one that that ever happened to me, I had only been in therapy for a couple of months, um, which means I was just starting to scratch the surface of what it means to start, like healing your mental health, right? We were at Sam's Club, and I was drenched in sweat, all the noise, and the lights in the stores, which, fun fact, for all of you at home, a lot of us don't realize it, the lights that are in supermarkets, yes, Literally are like needles to anybody that suffers any kind of anxiety disorder, uh, just, uh, anything. 189 00:17:26,183.0021751 --> 00:17:36,43.0021751 It doesn't happen all the time, like Christy mentioned, you know, the, the more you heal on your journey, you kind of move past certain things, you build tools that help you kind of deal with things. 190 00:17:36,593.0021751 --> 00:17:49,243.0031751 I haven't had that happen to me in a really, really long time, but in the beginning of going to therapy, that was a huge trigger and physical representation for me to the extent where I literally told my husband, I'm like, "here's the list...." 191 00:17:49,572.0031751 --> 00:17:53,153.0031751 mm "I'm going to need you to go kind of find everything. 192 00:17:53,233.0031751 --> 00:18:07,403.0026751 I'm going to go to the outside aisle of the store", which thankfully Sam's club and Costco both have this design where they have like side aisles with stuff on the ends and a lot of people aren't on the ends and I go, "I'll walk alongside you, but I'm going to stay on the outside." 193 00:18:07,403.0026751 --> 00:18:11,883.0031751 And like, he would go in and out until I was kind of like able to bring myself down. 194 00:18:12,343.0031751 --> 00:18:41,559.0041751 Um, so those for me are, are my most significant, physical representations that come up Oh, and my other one, actually, I just thought of it because I'm dealing with it right now because, um, as much as I'm navigating the stress of looking for work pretty well, I think so, it's still manifesting when I have a lot of things going on positive and maybe not so positive at the same time I break out in hives. 195 00:18:41,589.0041751 --> 00:18:43,969.0041751 Oh, that sucks. 196 00:18:44,129.0041751 --> 00:18:50,29.0041751 Thankfully not enough to where it's like you get like little pustules or whatnot. 197 00:18:50,59.0041751 --> 00:18:54,199.0041751 I just, it looks like I start breaking out like across my chest and on my shoulders. 198 00:18:54,829.0041751 --> 00:19:06,289.0041751 Or if it's really, really bad, um, anxiety rashes come out on the back of my head, which is so annoying when you're trying to go to sleep and all of a sudden you're just like scratching the back of your scalp. 199 00:19:07,779.0041751 --> 00:19:08,389.0041751 So that's me. 200 00:19:08,643.0031751 --> 00:19:10,763.0021751 That one I haven't had to deal with. 201 00:19:10,903.0021751 --> 00:19:14,633.0021751 But, that's, ugh, hives, no. 202 00:19:15,243.0021751 --> 00:19:26,203.0011751 Light sensitivity, huge, especially for me lately with the, with my symptoms being, uh, dizziness related. 203 00:19:26,413.0011751 --> 00:19:30,693.0011751 Um, I wear a baseball cap at work. 204 00:19:31,413.0011751 --> 00:19:35,638.0011751 I wear a baseball cap, basically anywhere there's going to be fluorescent lighting. 205 00:19:35,921.7284479 --> 00:19:36,571.7284479 That's a cool trick. 206 00:19:36,571.7284479 --> 00:19:37,281.7284479 I never thought of that. 207 00:19:37,798.0011751 --> 00:19:38,308.0011751 It helps. 208 00:19:38,378.0011751 --> 00:19:41,118.0011751 And I just spoiled myself. 209 00:19:41,118.0011751 --> 00:19:44,299.0011751 I, well, actually this is going into like the how we No, that's fine. 210 00:19:44,299.0011751 --> 00:19:44,599.0011751 That's fine. 211 00:19:44,659.0011751 --> 00:19:45,19.0011751 Go for it. 212 00:19:46,588.0011751 --> 00:19:53,298.0011751 So I just um, purchased for myself these, they're basically migraine glasses. 213 00:19:53,638.0011751 --> 00:19:56,8.0011751 So I don't, I don't suffer headaches. 214 00:19:56,38.0011751 --> 00:20:00,349.0011751 I mean, sometimes like hormonally I'll have headaches, but Consider yourself blessed. 215 00:20:01,49.0011751 --> 00:20:05,428.0011751 But I think what I do have now is possibly vestibular migraine. 216 00:20:05,858.0011751 --> 00:20:30,86.9016751 So, that can be brought on by hormone changes, that can be brought on by, high stress, that can be brought on by anything, um, I, I don't know, I have some type of vestibular disorder and it's really hard to get a proper diagnosis when it comes to the vestibular system because there's so much between your eyes and your ears and your whatever. 217 00:20:30,346.9016751 --> 00:20:32,466.9016751 Like it's all super complicated and it sucks. 218 00:20:32,466.9016751 --> 00:20:32,736.9016751 But whatever. 219 00:20:32,736.9016751 --> 00:20:39,99.2032447 It's, it's I understand the light sensitivity is the point of what I was saying. 220 00:20:39,169.2032447 --> 00:20:42,859.2032447 Fluorescent light, what we don't realize about it is that it flashes. 221 00:20:44,289.2032447 --> 00:20:46,449.2032447 It's not constant, you know, like daylight. 222 00:20:46,909.2022447 --> 00:20:54,942.9772447 Fluorescent light tends to, like if you put a camera up to it, it'll, kind of the same, your computer, your phone, they flash at you. 223 00:20:54,942.9772447 --> 00:21:02,39.2022447 You just don't see it because it's not a, I think like a spectrum of light that you can visibly see with your eye. 224 00:21:02,679.2022447 --> 00:21:03,529.2022447 But it's there. 225 00:21:03,544.2022447 --> 00:21:04,354.2022447 It's happening. 226 00:21:04,634.2022447 --> 00:21:12,244.2022447 So, you know, there's, there's things such as like cyber sickness that, you know, if you're on your computer too long, you feel like total shit. 227 00:21:12,674.2012447 --> 00:21:14,254.2022447 That's totally legit. 228 00:21:14,664.2022447 --> 00:21:21,194.2017447 So you bring up a good point with regards to like, anxiety and and how it triggers physical symptoms. 229 00:21:21,194.2017447 --> 00:21:25,184.2022447 And before we jump into that, you know, again, just a reminder, everybody, we're not medical professionals. 230 00:21:25,584.2022447 --> 00:21:27,14.2022447 What we're talking about it. 231 00:21:27,24.2022447 --> 00:21:37,914.2022447 This is just what each of us has learned through our healing journeys, through therapy and other modalities that that we've each taken in terms of understanding how our bodies react the way that they do. 232 00:21:38,264.2012447 --> 00:21:41,604.2022447 And when it comes to anxiety, I mean, like you, I've learned a lot. 233 00:21:42,144.2022447 --> 00:21:59,74.2012447 Anxiety comes from how your body is operating in fight or flight mode or, uh, what is a fighter or fawn, um, whether you've got nervous system overload, like you mentioned, hormone imbalance, uh, stress levels. 234 00:21:59,144.2012447 --> 00:22:08,914.2022447 My biggest one for me, it really is, a hand in hand of nervous system overload and high stress when my stress levels are through the roof... 235 00:22:08,984.2022447 --> 00:22:10,154.2022447 Same ...that 236 00:22:10,154.2022447 --> 00:22:12,934.2022447 is when I can feel that my body is starting to go out of whack. 237 00:22:12,964.2022447 --> 00:22:19,814.2022447 And ever since I started treating my nervous system, which, I just started doing treatment and you and I have talked about this before. 238 00:22:19,814.2022447 --> 00:22:37,659.2032447 I just started doing network spinal chiropractic treatment, which is a branch of traditional chiropractic medicine that operates via essentially pressure points along your body that affect your nervous system to put your nervous system into action to start healing itself. 239 00:22:38,389.2032447 --> 00:22:44,309.2032447 I also, um, and you guys don't know this, it bleeds into the origin story, but it's just good for you to understand. 240 00:22:44,369.2032447 --> 00:22:46,389.2022447 I was born with a neurological disorder. 241 00:22:46,909.2022447 --> 00:22:58,809.2042447 It affects, the messages from my brain to my legs it doesn't necessarily affect the function of any other part of my body outside of from like my waist down my legs, like the messages kind of get delayed. 242 00:22:58,809.2042447 --> 00:23:08,789.2032447 So, it presents itself as a, as a walking impediment, but because it's a nervous system or a neurological disorder, it does affect my entire nervous system. 243 00:23:09,129.2042447 --> 00:23:14,729.2042447 I am always very, very hyper aware of the feelings in my body. 244 00:23:15,309.2052447 --> 00:23:23,349.2042447 Um, it's a blessing and a curse. 245 00:23:24,849.2042447 --> 00:23:32,389.2042447 I like to think of it more as blessing, because I can tell when something is off. 246 00:23:32,389.2042447 --> 00:23:39,479.2042447 And while our healthcare system, and we're not gonna dive into that too much, is a mess in this country, um, I believe in the benefit of modern medicine as well as holistic medicine. 247 00:23:39,479.2042447 --> 00:23:46,799.2052447 Which is why I'm balancing, network spinal with, mental health, you know, regular psychotherapy, as well as, you know, just seeing doctors for medications. 248 00:23:47,399.2052447 --> 00:23:49,559.2052447 There is a time and a place for everything. 249 00:23:49,719.2052447 --> 00:23:56,249.2042447 And anytime I get treated for anything or I'm not feeling well, I can sense it in my body. 250 00:23:56,259.2052447 --> 00:23:58,769.2062447 So I'm very vocal, about what's going on for me. 251 00:23:58,769.2062447 --> 00:24:06,609.2062447 So kind of leading into us talking about our, our tips and tricks, um, like our symptoms. 252 00:24:07,914.2062447 --> 00:24:12,104.2062447 How I deal with things, me personally, has changed through the years. 253 00:24:12,504.2062447 --> 00:24:17,514.2062447 I think I'm just more hyper aware of how I go about doing them nowadays. 254 00:24:17,614.2062447 --> 00:24:20,674.2062447 I've done biofeedback breathing, which you and I have talked about. 255 00:24:21,534.2052447 --> 00:24:24,394.2062447 May sound kind of, uh, counterintuitive. 256 00:24:24,744.2052447 --> 00:24:26,724.2062447 I guess it's the only word that comes to mind. 257 00:24:26,794.2062447 --> 00:24:30,214.2062447 Uh, considering we were talking about how anxiety doesn't let us breathe. 258 00:24:30,959.2062447 --> 00:24:36,669.2062447 Yet, biofeedback breathing is a great way to interrupt an anxiety attack. 259 00:24:36,699.2062447 --> 00:24:40,159.2062447 And I've, I was doing that treatment for about three and a half months. 260 00:24:40,159.2062447 --> 00:24:44,459.2062447 And holy crap, that helps really, that for me has been great. 261 00:24:44,989.2062447 --> 00:24:49,99.2052447 Medication, like you agreed, if it's for you, do it. 262 00:24:49,119.2062447 --> 00:24:50,699.2062447 If it's not for you, don't do it. 263 00:24:50,809.2062447 --> 00:24:53,449.2062447 At first I wasn't for meds. 264 00:24:53,539.2062447 --> 00:24:54,969.2062447 I was kind of nervous about it. 265 00:24:55,439.2062447 --> 00:24:59,579.2052447 And then my therapist brought it up a second time and she goes. 266 00:25:00,224.2062447 --> 00:25:08,864.2062447 "Look, I think it's going to help you and I'm not giving you a medication that's habit forming that you gotta take all the time. 267 00:25:09,224.2062447 --> 00:25:14,214.2052447 I just want to give you something that's a good resource when and if you need it." 268 00:25:15,184.2052447 --> 00:25:15,784.2062447 Been great. 269 00:25:16,84.2062447 --> 00:25:19,514.2062447 The first six months I had it, I never touched it because I was still afraid of it. 270 00:25:20,374.2062447 --> 00:25:25,294.2062447 And then finally one day I just had a really, really bad anxious moment and I'm like, I'm going to try the meds. 271 00:25:26,142.539578 --> 00:25:26,832.539578 Loved it. 272 00:25:27,282.539578 --> 00:25:29,682.539578 It didn't do anything drastic. 273 00:25:30,72.539578 --> 00:25:37,502.539578 It just felt like it trapped the anxiety inside of a box, and it just kept it there. 274 00:25:37,572.539578 --> 00:25:39,102.539578 I still felt like I was anxious. 275 00:25:39,372.539578 --> 00:25:47,437.539578 I knew I was still dealing with an anxiety moment, but my body was able to move through it and function, which was fabulous. 276 00:25:47,877.539578 --> 00:25:51,497.539578 Um, I love to drink tea when I'm really, really anxious. 277 00:25:51,517.539578 --> 00:25:58,857.538578 My go to tea is linden tea, or for those of us Hispanic ladies and gentlemen that may be listening to us, Tilo. 278 00:26:00,217.539578 --> 00:26:01,347.539578 That is my best friend. 279 00:26:02,257.539578 --> 00:26:04,17.538578 I love it with a little bit of honey. 280 00:26:04,77.539578 --> 00:26:06,497.539578 Something nice and warm is great. 281 00:26:08,877.539578 --> 00:26:10,77.539578 Talking with friends. 282 00:26:10,167.539578 --> 00:26:17,877.538578 When I was first navigating, getting into mental health care, Christy was like one of my go to people to talk to. 283 00:26:18,257.538578 --> 00:26:25,757.539578 Which was funny because after high school, we didn't really stay connected for that long and it wasn't because of anything major, it was literally just our lives went in different paths. 284 00:26:26,717.539578 --> 00:26:35,907.539578 But because we were both active on social, and you are vocal about taking care of yourself and mental health, as I was struggling and trying to figure out. 285 00:26:36,622.539578 --> 00:26:40,432.539578 What getting care would look like, uh, she was a great resource. 286 00:26:40,442.539578 --> 00:26:45,672.539578 So talking with friends or family, if you feel like you are comfortable with family is good. 287 00:26:46,2.539578 --> 00:26:51,502.539578 And then my most recent one that I've started doing, and Chris is going to get a laugh out of this watching it on video. 288 00:26:51,832.539578 --> 00:26:53,802.538578 Um, I got into body shaking. 289 00:26:54,602.539578 --> 00:26:56,612.539578 So all about, like, grounding yourself on the floor. 290 00:26:56,612.539578 --> 00:26:59,162.539578 So, like, I'll stand barefoot, and I'll just start shaking. 291 00:26:59,162.539578 --> 00:27:01,162.539578 So, like, funny right now, guys. 292 00:27:01,422.539578 --> 00:27:05,142.538578 And I'll just, like, I'll start shaking my hands, and then I'll, I'll shake. 293 00:27:05,172.539578 --> 00:27:17,87.4604455 And then I found one on Instagram that apparently, like, you stand with your feet, um, like, shoulder width apart, and you just start swinging sideways, and you slap your arms against your side. 294 00:27:17,412.538578 --> 00:27:19,372.538578 Yes that feels so good. 295 00:27:19,472.538578 --> 00:27:20,393.1790088 So I started doing that. 296 00:27:20,393.1790088 --> 00:27:21,793.1790088 I would do that as a kid. 297 00:27:21,963.1790088 --> 00:27:23,183.1790088 It feels weird. 298 00:27:23,608.9912235 --> 00:27:24,588.9917235 It does feel weird. 299 00:27:24,588.9917235 --> 00:27:26,538.9922235 but there's a lot of things like that. 300 00:27:27,388.9922235 --> 00:27:30,468.9922235 um, shaking and doing like the swing, like the. 301 00:27:30,923.9922235 --> 00:27:33,683.9922235 Yeah, allowing your arms to just, like, swing and, like, hit you. 302 00:27:34,603.9922235 --> 00:27:41,843.9922235 would do those things mindlessly as a kid and now looking back, I'm like "I was self soothing." 303 00:27:41,893.9922235 --> 00:27:44,23.9912235 So, speaking of self soothing... 304 00:27:44,963.9922235 --> 00:27:48,53.9932235 oh, wait, were you done with Your list before No yeah, that was pretty much it. 305 00:27:48,213.9932235 --> 00:27:51,733.9932235 Uh, the last thing on the shaking part was my husband gets a kick out of it. 306 00:27:51,743.9922235 --> 00:27:59,473.9927235 That's also sometimes how he can tell if I'm, if I'm really anxious, he'll look over and he'll just see me like with my hand on my chest. 307 00:27:59,473.9927235 --> 00:28:08,836.4932235 And if he sees me taking deep breaths, he knows I'm having a moment or I'm in the car, cause it's happened sometimes when I'm in the car, and I'll just start like shaking my hands Mhmm. 308 00:28:09,28.9932235 --> 00:28:18,142.3255569 As he's driving and I'll like stomp my feet and he'll just look over at me and he's like "Todo bien jefe? Hehe "everything good boss?" I'm like, just... 309 00:28:18,892.3265569 --> 00:28:21,592.3265569 yeah, you know just just having a little bit of anxiety. 310 00:28:21,612.3255569 --> 00:28:23,692.3265569 Don't mind me over here trying to shake it out. 311 00:28:24,324.4601869 --> 00:28:25,434.4601869 And I also cry. 312 00:28:25,664.4591869 --> 00:28:36,922.8272922 Like I I give myself permission to allow the feelings to come up I would say that is my biggest biggest tip especially for women Mm hmm. 313 00:28:37,154.4601869 --> 00:28:58,199.5226869 We get a super bad rap That our emotions are the problem and as a sex, we have so much pent up aggression, anger, anxiety, stress, that we have been conditioned to not release. 314 00:28:58,709.5226869 --> 00:29:04,719.5226869 And there is power in taking hold of what that feels like. 315 00:29:05,129.5226869 --> 00:29:11,469.5226869 Taking place in your anger, taking place in your nervousness, in your anxiety, it feels weird. 316 00:29:11,499.5226869 --> 00:29:25,79.5226869 And to others, it comes off as, uh, you know, angry and aggressive to them, but it is one of the best things you can do for yourself is to own whatever you're feeling. 317 00:29:25,79.5226869 --> 00:29:39,74.5226869 So there's times where my anxiousness is just there and there's no emotions with it and then there's other times where when it comes up, it just comes up with a world of tears and I used to fight it and I don't fight it anymore. 318 00:29:39,144.5226869 --> 00:29:41,634.5226869 If i'm feeling anxious I just I let it out. 319 00:29:41,674.5216869 --> 00:29:46,994.5226869 I own it and the minute I start feeling like it's kind of leaving. 320 00:29:47,204.5226869 --> 00:29:50,64.5226869 I'm like, okay, you know, you're good. 321 00:29:50,774.5226869 --> 00:29:51,674.5226869 You're safe. 322 00:29:52,504.5226869 --> 00:29:58,824.5221869 I'll do a couple of rounds of deep breaths and then with the same thing, you know, snap and I can just kind of keep moving. 323 00:29:58,824.5221869 --> 00:30:04,794.5226869 But being able to give myself that space of acknowledging emotion has been huge for me. 324 00:30:04,824.5226869 --> 00:30:17,694.5226869 I've never been one to hide my emotion, but it's different from when you don't understand it to when you do understand it and you give it the right time and the right place. 325 00:30:18,286.9400683 --> 00:30:18,986.9400683 Absolutely. 326 00:30:19,766.9400683 --> 00:30:26,926.9400683 I love what you said about the amount, especially as women, the amount of stuff we hold on to emotionally. 327 00:30:27,276.9400683 --> 00:30:39,816.9400683 Um, if you didn't know women account for like 80 percent of autoimmune disorders period and many doctors, science of course sucks. 328 00:30:39,836.9400683 --> 00:30:47,826.9400683 I mean, I, the more I educate myself on women's health, especially now I'm going into, I'm in my late thirties, going into my forties, I know what's coming. 329 00:30:47,836.9400683 --> 00:30:55,684.5226869 So I'm trying to do the best I can for my body but there is not a lot of research period. 330 00:30:55,794.5226869 --> 00:31:04,364.5226869 Women were not included in medical studies for Tylenol, for Advil, for dosages of all those little medications you take. 331 00:31:04,694.5226869 --> 00:31:06,384.5226869 Those are all based on men's bodies. 332 00:31:06,964.5226869 --> 00:31:18,864.5226869 It's only since the 90s that they started including women, and it was only because, well, women's hormones are really complicated, so we don't want to, we don't want to sully the pool with that complication. 333 00:31:19,14.5226869 --> 00:31:41,39.5216869 Like, what the, what? So, Yeah, I can go on a rant about women and women's health and how absolutely criminal it is that, uh, that we've been understudied and under supported by healthcare and science and just generally our healthcare system sucks like you said, but anyway. 334 00:31:42,59.5226869 --> 00:31:43,109.5226869 Moving on from that. 335 00:31:43,279.5226869 --> 00:31:46,349.5226869 Um, I forgot what I was going to say earlier. 336 00:31:46,509.5226869 --> 00:32:10,817.8560203 Uh, how do you, how do you manage it? So how do you bring yourself down and kind of help yourself through your anxiousness So it kind of depends on what the symptom is? How long I've been feeling it for? What the surrounding circumstances are? So, I can just like list stuff off and I'm sure there are more than these that I do, or carry with me, or whatever. 337 00:32:11,167.8560203 --> 00:32:13,627.8560203 But this is like, mostly my toolbox. 338 00:32:13,627.8560203 --> 00:32:25,7.8560203 So like, I'll go with the breathing first, because specifically for me, there are all types of breathing, calming, uh, modalities that you could use. 339 00:32:25,927.8560203 --> 00:32:27,517.8550203 But for me, it's box breathing. 340 00:32:27,797.8560203 --> 00:32:35,717.8560203 Cause it's so easy that my lizard brain, when I'm really, really, really fucking panicking, that you can't, you're in like, tunnel vision. 341 00:32:35,827.8560203 --> 00:32:38,997.8560203 You're just not present. 342 00:32:39,347.8560203 --> 00:32:41,552.8560203 Like, you are like, I'm dying. 343 00:32:41,652.8560203 --> 00:32:42,532.8560203 Like, I'm, that's it. 344 00:32:42,612.8560203 --> 00:32:43,422.8560203 Like, I'm dead. 345 00:32:43,622.8560203 --> 00:32:44,82.8560203 Death. 346 00:32:44,172.8560203 --> 00:32:48,872.8560203 Like, when you're in that zone, there's only so much you can process. 347 00:32:48,912.8560203 --> 00:32:55,682.8570203 So, for me, counting in four counts, hold four counts, exhale four counts, hold four counts. 348 00:32:55,712.8560203 --> 00:33:09,547.8560203 And I do that until I feel like My brain can process more than four counts and then I expand it to six counts and then eight counts and then by then I'm usually like much more calm. 349 00:33:09,877.8550203 --> 00:33:21,757.8550203 I'll even do that in the middle of the day sometimes when I'm not anxious because especially during the work day, you don't realize it, but you're not like fully breathing like deeply. 350 00:33:21,867.8550203 --> 00:33:26,637.8560203 Usually when we're working and like concentrated in something that's kind of stressful. 351 00:33:26,837.8560203 --> 00:33:30,407.8560203 We're breathing with like our chest, not with our diaphragm. 352 00:33:30,407.8560203 --> 00:33:35,689.5226869 So it's like, it's shallower breathing, which isn't great for like your whole system. 353 00:33:36,151.1893536 --> 00:33:37,741.1893536 So breathing for sure. 354 00:33:38,81.1893536 --> 00:33:41,654.5216869 "From the diaphram" Also tapping. 355 00:33:41,654.5226869 --> 00:33:47,484.5226869 So tapping is something new that I've come across that I'm still trying to like, figure out if I like or not. 356 00:33:47,894.5226869 --> 00:33:52,254.5226869 Um, it's also referred to as like EFT. 357 00:33:52,304.5226869 --> 00:33:54,324.5226869 I forget what the, what it's actually. 358 00:33:55,929.5226869 --> 00:33:56,649.5226869 I can't remember. 359 00:33:56,659.5226869 --> 00:33:58,759.5226869 It stands for something, but you can look it up. 360 00:33:58,799.5226869 --> 00:34:02,449.5226869 It's, it's on socials too, like just tapping. 361 00:34:02,449.5226869 --> 00:34:13,779.5226869 So, you know, like tapping your head, tapping basically these acupressure points, that like help you focus on something else. 362 00:34:13,779.5226869 --> 00:34:17,669.5226869 So again, a good tool for like anxiety in the moment of freaking out. 363 00:34:17,989.5226869 --> 00:34:34,549.5226869 What do I do to like feel better? if I'm dealing with nausea and especially nausea in public places for me, like now eating at restaurants is again, like hard for me because of this, whatever. 364 00:34:34,559.5226869 --> 00:34:52,579.5216869 Like, it's just when that comes up, it becomes a thing and like my kind of my brain wants to like, tend toward agoraphobia and the thing about me that I appreciate about myself is that I refuse to let my anxiety me limit me in that way. 365 00:34:53,21.1893536 --> 00:34:59,671.1893536 I'm not, I'm not perfect at it but like I just I do push myself to do as much as I can. 366 00:34:59,737.8560203 --> 00:35:04,47.8560203 Probably push myself too much to be honest, but that's a whole other podcast conversation. 367 00:35:04,47.8560203 --> 00:35:16,897.8560203 So anyway, when I'm feeling nauseous, this is actually really good advice for travel, for car travel, if you're motion sick or, um, airplane travel because they give out drinks. 368 00:35:17,47.8560203 --> 00:35:22,167.8560203 So there are these things called gin gins, they're ginger chews that you can like buy on Amazon. 369 00:35:22,707.8560203 --> 00:35:27,497.8550203 And can, on planes, like, ginger is very spicy. 370 00:35:27,507.8560203 --> 00:35:29,237.8550203 It's also really good for nausea. 371 00:35:29,607.8560203 --> 00:35:31,147.8550203 They use it a lot for like motion. 372 00:35:31,512.8560203 --> 00:35:34,212.8560203 Or, I'm sorry, morning sickness for pregnancies and stuff like that. 373 00:35:34,786.1893536 --> 00:35:40,662.8560203 But um, it's great for distracting your mind because it is really spicy in your mouth. 374 00:35:40,712.8560203 --> 00:35:46,142.8560203 Like, for me, I'm not a spicy food person, so because it gives me, like, heartburn and stuff. 375 00:35:46,142.8560203 --> 00:35:47,922.8550203 So, because, because I'm old. 376 00:35:48,222.8550203 --> 00:35:59,822.8560203 So, like, Having the ginger in my mouth and like the spiciness and it just takes my mind away from nausea for like a second and it really does help. 377 00:35:59,862.8560203 --> 00:36:02,952.8560203 Like it, it brings me back down a little bit. 378 00:36:02,972.8560203 --> 00:36:05,792.8550203 It doesn't cure me, but it me back down. 379 00:36:06,272.8560203 --> 00:36:07,22.8560203 Um. 380 00:36:07,392.8560203 --> 00:36:08,482.8560203 Meds as needed. 381 00:36:08,482.8560203 --> 00:36:20,622.8560203 So, like, Dramamine for me lately, or when it's really, whatever, bad, So, there's different medications, obviously, that you can be prescribed for anxiety, or, or things like anxiety. 382 00:36:21,239.5216869 --> 00:36:26,662.8560203 My emergency rescue medication is Klonopin, specifically, and I take a very amount. 383 00:36:27,2.8560203 --> 00:36:37,294.5226869 If I feel like I have to, I always try to do everything else before I get to that step, because it can be habit forming. 384 00:36:37,314.5216869 --> 00:36:49,664.5226869 And I, like, I do not use it, um, enough to usually I, I, I always have left it, although lately I've been using a little more, but whatever, like we all go through eras so... 385 00:36:59,81.4923839 --> 00:36:59,641.4923839 Oh, nice. 386 00:37:03,137.2430986 --> 00:37:04,207.2430986 Oh, I don't know what that is. 387 00:37:04,230.576432 --> 00:37:05,470.576432 Is that the brand or is that... 388 00:37:05,977.2430986 --> 00:37:17,738.4620809 that's the brand, Buspirone I believe is the full medication, like a scientific medication name, 10 milligrams, and it's in and out of my system 8 hours, and I can take it Nice up to 4 times a day. 389 00:37:17,908.4620809 --> 00:37:21,285.576432 Oh wow! I've never had to take it more than twice wow. 390 00:37:21,513.4620809 --> 00:37:29,13.4620809 because like you, like you mentioned, you know, you try to use all of the tools available to you that you've learned to help yourself. 391 00:37:29,133.4620809 --> 00:37:35,763.4620809 But if you get to a point where you're like, you know what, I, it's not working. 392 00:37:35,873.4610809 --> 00:37:38,103.4610809 I'm going to just I'm going to take one of my pills. 393 00:37:38,698.4620809 --> 00:37:41,308.4620809 And for me, it takes about an hour for it to kick in. 394 00:37:41,318.4620809 --> 00:37:46,218.4620809 And it's so funny because like I mentioned, like, it kind of feels like it just gets trapped into a box. 395 00:37:46,628.4620809 --> 00:37:52,151.6923438 Like, it just kind of down shifts And I feel like it just kind of washes over me and I'm like, Oh, okay. 396 00:37:52,711.6923438 --> 00:37:53,821.6923438 My pill kicked in... 397 00:37:53,851.6923438 --> 00:37:55,326.5343373 it's like calm. 398 00:37:55,856.6923438 --> 00:37:58,837.0234721 It's not gone, but it's like but it's manageable. 399 00:37:58,877.0234721 --> 00:38:01,407.0234721 Yeah it kinda like compartmentalizes. 400 00:38:01,407.0234721 --> 00:38:04,767.0234721 It's like it's here, but it's bubble wrapped Exactly. 401 00:38:05,50.3568054 --> 00:38:07,210.3568054 And, I appreciate your, your little tip on the gin gins. 402 00:38:07,210.3568054 --> 00:38:08,370.3568054 I'm definitely gonna look into those. 403 00:38:08,510.3568054 --> 00:38:09,530.3568054 Yes they're amazing. 404 00:38:09,530.3568054 --> 00:38:15,290.3568054 And I'm I'm going to give you a tip, which you may not have heard of and this is actually very, very good. 405 00:38:15,750.3568054 --> 00:38:16,890.3568054 Rubbing alcohol. 406 00:38:17,40.3568054 --> 00:38:17,910.3568054 Rubbing Alcohol. 407 00:38:18,347.0234721 --> 00:38:22,167.0224721 Smelling rubbing alcohol can stop nausea. 408 00:38:22,307.0224721 --> 00:38:22,727.0224721 Ohhh. 409 00:38:22,753.2071455 --> 00:38:23,259.8738122 that's fair. 410 00:38:23,343.6891387 --> 00:38:25,123.6891387 I do carry a... 411 00:38:25,533.6891387 --> 00:38:29,417.6226716 so I have a whole little kit that I carry with me the majority of the time. 412 00:38:29,447.6226716 --> 00:38:31,157.6226716 I am a walking fucking pharmacy. 413 00:38:31,157.6226716 --> 00:38:33,472.2903383 I have zero problems You're always prepared. 414 00:38:33,482.2893383 --> 00:38:33,922.2893383 That's okay. 415 00:38:34,32.2893383 --> 00:38:34,512.2893383 I am. 416 00:38:34,922.2893383 --> 00:38:57,159.5552045 Um, It's a It's an inhaler that has, uh, essential oils, so like peppermint oil, I think spearmint, eucalyptus, but it's, it does the same thing, but you're right, rubbing alcohol is, is, the one that they use at, you know, a doctor's office I carry in my purse, the little rubbing alcohol, like, little packets. 417 00:38:57,789.5552045 --> 00:39:07,199.5542045 I buy a box of like 50 at a time and I always have like three or four in my purse and I have, um, some in the car. 418 00:39:07,629.5552045 --> 00:39:14,179.5542045 Uh, my husband carries some in his travel bag whenever we travel just in case, um, I run out of mine. 419 00:39:14,524.5552045 --> 00:39:17,514.5552045 Also, and this is one thing, and I, and I know you can vouch for this too. 420 00:39:17,804.5552045 --> 00:39:23,974.5552045 For those of us that are in healthy relationships, good partners are also wonderful medicine as well. 421 00:39:24,244.5542045 --> 00:39:35,114.5552045 Um, like their distractive qualities or their ability to be able to give us the safe space to kind of feel whatever we're feeling and help us move through it is great. 422 00:39:35,164.5552045 --> 00:39:48,544.5552045 Through the years, my husband, my now husband, because we're still newlyweds, but any case, He's gotten really good where if he can tell that I'm kind of off he'll just ask me He goes, "are you sure you want to do this? Are you sure you're okay to do this". 423 00:39:49,794.5552045 --> 00:39:51,829.5552045 If We're at a party. 424 00:39:51,909.5552045 --> 00:39:54,879.5552045 I'm the extrovert out of the two and you've known me since high school. 425 00:39:54,929.5552045 --> 00:40:01,719.5547045 I have never a problem being around people until I got diagnosed. 426 00:40:02,229.5547045 --> 00:40:04,29.5547045 Actually no, I'm kidding. 427 00:40:04,259.5552045 --> 00:40:21,724.5552045 It actually wasn't until Covid and we all got trapped into boxes, right? And I've talked about this in therapy a lot, especially for you and I not only A) being Cuban but also B) be coming from Miami, which runs at an adrenaline level of like a million. 428 00:40:23,234.5552045 --> 00:40:41,664.5552045 COVID forcing everybody into boxes, for me, forced my nervous system to slow down, and I have never been able to operate again healthy at the level that I was pre COVID, and I'm okay with that. 429 00:40:42,124.5552045 --> 00:40:55,464.5552045 Um, in line with that, we moved out of Miami, we're now in Orlando, and I like whenever we travel down to South Florida, both of us are like, "I don't know how we used to live here." 430 00:40:55,464.5552045 --> 00:40:58,854.5552045 Like we know how we used to live there, but I don't know how we used to live there. 431 00:40:59,344.5542045 --> 00:41:03,514.5552045 We really just don't operate at that same intensity level. 432 00:41:04,124.5542045 --> 00:41:08,624.5547045 And that's also when a lot of like my mental health stuff started to present itself. 433 00:41:08,624.5547045 --> 00:41:15,604.5552045 Because again, your nervous system has an opportunity to kind of reset and sit down and be quiet and forces you to sit with yourself. 434 00:41:16,224.5552045 --> 00:41:19,764.5552045 Um, and that's when, when I decided to, to seek help. 435 00:41:20,449.5552045 --> 00:41:35,199.5552045 When we're at parties to kind of circle back and he'll notice, like, I'll kind of like move off to the side and I'm part of wherever we're at, but I'm not part of it. 436 00:41:35,199.5552045 --> 00:41:36,669.5552045 Like, I'm not interacting. 437 00:41:36,789.5552045 --> 00:41:42,459.5552045 That's when he knows, okay, she's kind of taking some space to herself and he'll walk over to me and he's like," Hey, you good. 438 00:41:42,459.5552045 --> 00:41:51,126.2208712 I'm like, yeah, I just kind of need a little break and he'll look at me he goes, "do you have your earplugs?" By the way, if you don't have them buy yourself, some travel earplugs, we both forgot to mention that. 439 00:41:51,406.2208712 --> 00:41:54,771.8210708 On my fucking list! Well I love my Loops. 440 00:41:55,371.8210708 --> 00:42:00,132.8885379 I love them They are Loops yep, I use loops. 441 00:42:00,622.8885379 --> 00:42:01,282.8885379 They're fabulous. 442 00:42:01,785.1544041 --> 00:42:13,272.8885379 So, I think I've always been sound sensitive, and the way I know this is because uh, I'm a Disney By the way guys, sorry if I screamed into the microphone. 443 00:42:13,312.8885379 --> 00:42:14,322.8885379 I didn't mean to do that. 444 00:42:14,822.8885379 --> 00:42:17,292.8885379 Again, we're Hispanic, so we tend to get loud from time to time. 445 00:42:17,622.8885379 --> 00:42:18,122.8885379 Continue. 446 00:42:19,165.1544041 --> 00:42:19,585.1544041 It's true. 447 00:42:20,322.8875379 --> 00:42:21,362.8885379 It's the passion. 448 00:42:21,785.1544041 --> 00:42:22,665.1544041 It's, it is. 449 00:42:22,875.1544041 --> 00:42:27,635.1544041 We get excited about the things, you know, we're just, We're just, happy. 450 00:42:27,635.1544041 --> 00:42:30,245.1544041 We're not being killed by a communist dictator. 451 00:42:30,245.1544041 --> 00:42:30,565.1544041 Oh, wait. 452 00:42:31,575.1544041 --> 00:42:32,85.1544041 Oh wait. 453 00:42:32,775.1544041 --> 00:42:33,195.1544041 wait. 454 00:42:33,255.1544041 --> 00:42:33,555.1544041 Okay. 455 00:42:35,179.5542045 --> 00:42:36,579.5552045 Save that for another episode. 456 00:42:37,79.5552045 --> 00:42:39,52.7523633 Sorry, you were talking about your loops. 457 00:42:39,389.5552045 --> 00:42:41,59.5552045 And auditory. 458 00:42:41,802.3935265 --> 00:42:42,722.3935265 Yes LOOPS. 459 00:42:42,822.3935265 --> 00:42:43,852.3935265 I love my...I 460 00:42:43,852.3935265 --> 00:42:46,5.1544041 carry them They're part of my kit. 461 00:42:46,65.1544041 --> 00:42:47,535.1544041 I carry them everywhere. 462 00:42:47,895.1544041 --> 00:42:51,945.1544041 And the way that I realized, I've always been sound sensitive. 463 00:42:51,945.1544041 --> 00:42:58,178.4877375 I just wasn't allowed or like nobody noticed or I didn't notice. 464 00:42:58,208.4877375 --> 00:42:59,288.4877375 So on. 465 00:42:59,408.4877375 --> 00:43:00,988.4877375 I'm a Disney adult. 466 00:43:01,358.4877375 --> 00:43:04,63.4877375 Not like I don't own a bunch of ears. 467 00:43:04,103.4877375 --> 00:43:05,713.4877375 I don't own any ears, actually. 468 00:43:05,713.4877375 --> 00:43:06,863.4877375 I'm not an ear person. 469 00:43:07,213.4877375 --> 00:43:23,453.4877375 Um, I just go because Well, that's, that's actually a very different episode, because now I experience anxiety all the time when I'm there, and it fucking sucks, so, my relationship to it has changed, but anyway, that's, again, another topic. 470 00:43:23,653.4877375 --> 00:43:43,368.4877375 Um, but, when I go, I, especially on Thunder Mountain, always, in the lift hill that's indoors, so like, you know how there's a lift hill in the beginning and it's like a little waterfall with like stalactites and stalagmites and like before like the initial lift hill. 471 00:43:43,718.4877375 --> 00:43:54,378.4877375 It's very loud for me and I've always covered, from when I was a child, covered my ears in that part was and nobody else was covering their fucking ears. 472 00:43:54,638.4877375 --> 00:44:05,308.4877375 It's so loud! It's cause I'm sounds sensitive an I always have been. 473 00:44:05,308.4877375 --> 00:44:15,648.4877375 So now i get to ride it, and I have my loops in and I don't have to cover my ears and its fucking fabulous. 474 00:44:15,988.4877375 --> 00:44:19,228.4877375 I also use them, I'm a big horror nights fan at universal. 475 00:44:19,228.4877375 --> 00:44:46,418.4867375 And I wear them the entire time, but especially in the houses cuz I love going but, like, there's something about getting scared in a safe place that, like, I don't know, the, anxiety, it's a good anxiety, but the, the, earplugs help, they help for any, everything and anything, like, sometimes I just feel like being more in my, I am not an extrovert, you haven't noticed, I am the polar opposite of Melisa in terms of, like, I'm just an introvert. 476 00:44:46,448.4867375 --> 00:44:54,338.4857375 Like, I, you will find me playing with the dog at the house get together, you know, like I will be on the sofa. 477 00:44:55,118.4857375 --> 00:44:59,588.4867375 I mean, I'm better at like one on one conversations than like being a part of a whole. 478 00:44:59,848.4867375 --> 00:45:11,428.4867375 And, and most people who don't know me that well or like know me only at work or whatever usually be like, you're an introvert, but you're like, "you talk so much." 479 00:45:11,428.4867375 --> 00:45:13,938.4867375 And I'm like, thank you. 480 00:45:14,423.4867375 --> 00:45:34,973.4867375 I think, I don't know, um, but yes, I'm an introvert, being around people sucks the energy out of me very easily, and even more easily when my nervous system is out of whack, so, anyway, I'm huge proponent of loops earplugs, any earplugs. 481 00:45:35,373.4867375 --> 00:45:36,543.4867375 The foam ones are great. 482 00:45:36,793.4867375 --> 00:45:45,253.4867375 Like, whatever you can get, they will, they really, it's incredible how sound can stress you the fuck out. 483 00:45:45,271.066556 --> 00:45:47,21.6027306 For me it vibrates my eardrums. 484 00:45:48,41.6027306 --> 00:45:54,283.1693973 So that, that, can literally trigger anxiety in me when it's like really, really bad. 485 00:45:54,303.1693973 --> 00:45:58,183.1693973 So when I found loops, same thing, I carry them with me everywhere. 486 00:45:58,529.836064 --> 00:45:59,999.835064 By the way, they're super cute now. 487 00:45:59,999.836064 --> 00:46:04,799.836064 They come in all different colors, I want to get a gold pair so that I can have them for like when we're out. 488 00:46:04,859.836064 --> 00:46:07,739.836064 And it's like, Oh, they just kind of look like earrings kind of deal. 489 00:46:08,199.836064 --> 00:46:11,749.836064 I know, I have them in rose gold. 490 00:46:12,459.836064 --> 00:46:12,847.437493 They're so good. 491 00:46:13,520.1716268 --> 00:46:16,610.1716268 Yeah, I love them, I mean, I even use them at family gatherings. 492 00:46:16,930.1716268 --> 00:46:18,171.9600621 yes! Yes. 493 00:46:18,340.1716268 --> 00:46:21,816.8382934 That's smart Again, we are Hispanic. 494 00:46:22,381.8382934 --> 00:46:26,41.8382934 have, like, our families are naturally loud. 495 00:46:26,271.8382934 --> 00:46:28,381.8382934 Um, there's just, there's no avoiding it. 496 00:46:28,381.8382934 --> 00:46:32,631.8382934 And it's the same thing if you're part of an Italian family, because I got friends that are Italian that are listening to this. 497 00:46:32,711.8382934 --> 00:46:42,476.7382934 Uh, really, any ethnicity that is culturally diverse understands what it means to be around loud family gatherings. 498 00:46:42,756.8382934 --> 00:46:53,686.8382934 If I don't have those earplugs, I have to go to another room every once in a while because it'll literally overwhelm me and it sucks because it doesn't mean that I don't want to be there. 499 00:46:53,786.8382934 --> 00:47:10,60.1716268 100 million percent I think anxiety also can be coupled with overwhelm and they're not necessarily the same thing, overwhelm can be good overwhelm and bad overwhelm. 500 00:47:11,580.1716268 --> 00:47:17,360.1716268 I had it last week and I remember I, I reached out to you after we had recorded our first episode. 501 00:47:17,840.1716268 --> 00:47:19,670.1706268 I had been sitting on the couch for about an hour. 502 00:47:19,670.1716268 --> 00:47:22,770.1706268 My husband wasn't here last week and he was visiting his mom. 503 00:47:22,790.1716268 --> 00:47:29,40.1716268 So I was in the house by myself and I'm sitting on the couch watching a movie, one of my safe movies, I was watching a Harry Potter movie. 504 00:47:29,690.1716268 --> 00:47:31,780.1716268 Uh, cause I just kind of needed to decompress. 505 00:47:32,730.1716268 --> 00:47:57,395.1716268 And I had excited overwhelm, which literally started to trigger anxiety in me, and it, when that happens, I don't know if you've ever experienced this, and if anybody who's listening to the episode has ever experienced this, I get so frickin frustrated, and I have to really, Talk myself down from not getting angry because I have to remind myself. 506 00:47:58,105.1716268 --> 00:47:59,125.1716268 This is natural. 507 00:47:59,165.1716268 --> 00:48:04,964.1041597 This isn't bad you know, you had a lot going on in the last couple of hours and Hmm. 508 00:48:05,335.1716268 --> 00:48:09,145.1716268 giving us a chance to sit down and breathe. 509 00:48:09,895.1706268 --> 00:48:10,475.1706268 okay. 510 00:48:12,197.437493 --> 00:48:13,97.437493 that's, that's, fair. 511 00:48:14,205.1716268 --> 00:48:14,875.1716268 All right. 512 00:48:15,370.7708263 --> 00:48:18,130.7708263 Oh wait, I I have a few more that are very basic. 513 00:48:18,341.8372934 --> 00:48:25,570.7708263 okay Most neuro spicy people will always be carrying around some kind of comfort liquid. 514 00:48:26,50.7708263 --> 00:48:32,240.7708263 Um, and I'm not talking about alcohol, but I am attached to my water bottle. 515 00:48:33,360.7708263 --> 00:48:41,835.7708263 I drink a lot of water every day, that helps just to, like, it's not just good for you, like, it's just if you feel better. 516 00:48:41,905.7708263 --> 00:48:47,365.7708263 Like, I promise your headache, nine out of ten times, probably because you're a little dehydrated. 517 00:48:47,845.7698263 --> 00:48:51,825.7708263 And if not that, I also use electrolytes, so specifically I use Element. 518 00:48:52,245.7698263 --> 00:48:55,725.7698263 There's, whatever, talk on the internet about the... 519 00:48:55,835.7698263 --> 00:49:00,425.7708263 look into buoy I, they don't have as much of a concentration, like, it's just not. 520 00:49:01,355.7708263 --> 00:49:07,590.7708263 I know that bouy is created specifically for, like, chronic illness people, but I like Element. 521 00:49:08,430.7708263 --> 00:49:09,370.7708263 It works for me. 522 00:49:10,300.7708263 --> 00:49:12,190.7708263 I just switched out from liquid IV. 523 00:49:12,230.7708263 --> 00:49:16,130.7708263 I switched out from liquid IV because of the amount of sugar and just like there's a lot of stuff in it. 524 00:49:17,530.7708263 --> 00:49:21,90.7708263 to Element, but um, So far it's been fine. 525 00:49:21,200.7698263 --> 00:49:34,270.7708263 So hydration slash electrolytes, very important for any kind of anxiety, overwhelm, uh, whether it's ADHD, whether it's migraines, like. 526 00:49:34,910.7708263 --> 00:49:38,50.7708263 keeping yourself hydrated and keeping your electrolytes. 527 00:49:38,655.7708263 --> 00:49:42,545.7708263 At good levels, very underrated, very important. 528 00:49:43,225.7708263 --> 00:49:45,945.7708263 Um, I had mentioned the hat thing. 529 00:49:46,375.7708263 --> 00:49:48,605.7708263 I wear, if I'm outside, I'm wearing a fucking hat. 530 00:49:48,825.7708263 --> 00:49:52,675.7698263 And it's not cause I'm precious about my skin, although I am. 531 00:49:52,715.7698263 --> 00:49:55,675.7708263 Like, I wear sunscreen all the time cause I'm in Miami. 532 00:49:56,415.7708263 --> 00:49:58,415.7708263 you have to, otherwise you're burned to a crisp. 533 00:49:59,160.7708263 --> 00:50:10,640.7708263 Cause I'm the color of paper, I, but I wear a cap or a hat everywhere, including indoors, if there's fluorescent lighting, it helps me a lot. 534 00:50:10,640.7708263 --> 00:50:18,960.7708263 Going, then I go to like Target or Publix or where like big places with the fluoresce, I have to. 535 00:50:19,330.7708263 --> 00:50:22,240.7708263 I have to, because it just, it feels better. 536 00:50:22,340.7708263 --> 00:50:23,440.7708263 I, I don't even know why. 537 00:50:23,530.7708263 --> 00:50:24,320.7708263 It just feels better. 538 00:50:24,950.7708263 --> 00:50:48,666.8372934 Um, I do carry a personal fan with me now, in my older age, the hot flashes that come from anxiety I, I don't think I have, I, don't I don't think they're menopausal hot flashes I'm flushed right now, I don't know if you can see it on video and you guys at home can't see it, I am like, rosy cheeks right now. 539 00:50:50,506.8372934 --> 00:51:11,695.7708263 Yeah, no I see it, I see it I'm sweating all the time, like, I'm, I'm just sweating, like, I, I don't, and then when I'm ovulating, I'm fucking dripping in sweat, like, it is, it's bad, like, I just get hot, like, I'm, so I just sit there with a fan, and I'm in air conditioning, Doesn't matter. 540 00:51:11,855.7708263 --> 00:51:13,535.7708263 Like, I, I don't, it's fine. 541 00:51:13,615.7708263 --> 00:51:14,45.7708263 It's fine. 542 00:51:14,95.7708263 --> 00:51:14,525.7708263 I'm broken. 543 00:51:14,525.7708263 --> 00:51:15,725.6708263 It's fine. 544 00:51:15,805.7708263 --> 00:51:17,515.7708263 Um, painkillers, obviously. 545 00:51:17,565.7708263 --> 00:51:20,395.7708263 Like, don't, be brave. 546 00:51:21,160.7708263 --> 00:51:28,770.7708263 you feel a headache coming on, if you feel some kind of pain that can be treated with Advil or Tylenol, take the fucking Advil or Tylenol. 547 00:51:28,810.7708263 --> 00:51:30,340.7708263 Don't be, don't be a hero. 548 00:51:30,640.7698263 --> 00:51:31,90.7698263 Don't be. 549 00:51:31,330.7708263 --> 00:51:32,360.7708263 It's, you don't need to be. 550 00:51:32,360.7708263 --> 00:51:34,90.7708263 Just, it's okay. 551 00:51:34,420.7708263 --> 00:51:35,610.7708263 It's there for a reason. 552 00:51:36,540.7698263 --> 00:51:39,720.7708263 Um, I also, we have talked about peppermint oil. 553 00:51:39,740.7708263 --> 00:51:47,0.7708263 There is a stick that you can use on your temples, and really anywhere, like the base of your neck, whatever. 554 00:51:47,320.7708263 --> 00:51:54,60.1716268 really good for if you have a headache and You already took the Advil or Tylenol, or you don't want to, or I do that too. 555 00:51:54,220.1716268 --> 00:51:56,240.1716268 Um, It's not my go to, but I do that too. 556 00:51:56,674.1041597 --> 00:51:57,24.1041597 I do. 557 00:51:57,344.1041597 --> 00:51:59,64.1041597 It's, it's, it feels nice. 558 00:51:59,854.1041597 --> 00:52:03,84.1031597 Maybe it's placebo, maybe not, but at this point, I don't care. 559 00:52:03,400.1716268 --> 00:52:05,60.1716268 Yeah, no, I completely agree. 560 00:52:05,90.1716268 --> 00:52:07,50.1716268 Placebo or medicated otherwise. 561 00:52:07,100.1706268 --> 00:52:08,200.1716268 If it works, it works. 562 00:52:08,270.1716268 --> 00:52:09,460.1716268 Listen, I'm not going to judge you. 563 00:52:09,840.1716268 --> 00:52:13,800.1716268 So long as you're not either A, committing a crime, or B, self harming, go for it. 564 00:52:17,30.1706268 --> 00:52:22,520.1716268 And we'll talk about more as we navigate different conversations as we go, but I agree with you. 565 00:52:22,520.1716268 --> 00:52:32,853.5049601 I think I think all of these are good options and, and for those of you listening, you know, if you guys have anything specific that you find works for you, send it in to us. 566 00:52:33,463.5049601 --> 00:52:34,413.5049601 love to feature it. 567 00:52:35,623.5049601 --> 00:52:41,303.5049601 Also, we'd just love to add options into our toolbox whenever we can. 568 00:52:41,470.7708263 --> 00:52:41,820.7708263 Yeah. 569 00:52:42,140.7708263 --> 00:52:42,840.7708263 Share the wealth. 570 00:52:43,863.5049601 --> 00:52:48,533.5049601 And with that, we'll go ahead and wrap up for the day. 571 00:52:49,63.5049601 --> 00:53:00,296.8382934 It's episode two, but we have our first listener love shoutout, and Christy hasn't heard this one yet, I haven't so we're going to get her genuine reaction to this. 572 00:53:00,326.8382934 --> 00:53:09,740.1716268 I'm excited So today's listener shout out is from Raquel O, and she writes, "I listened to the first episode, congrats. 573 00:53:10,410.1706268 --> 00:53:11,300.1716268 It hit home. 574 00:53:11,910.1716268 --> 00:53:22,590.1716268 I find myself mindless scrolling with health anxiety, but hearing somebody else say it out loud made me feel relief and just not being able to sleep. 575 00:53:22,780.1716268 --> 00:53:26,180.1716268 I appreciate the content and I look forward to the next." 576 00:53:28,190.7708263 --> 00:53:29,400.7698263 Raquel, I feel you. 577 00:53:29,780.7698263 --> 00:53:34,410.7708263 You're I, you in my in my bosom. 578 00:53:34,550.7708263 --> 00:53:35,90.7708263 No, I'm kidding. 579 00:53:35,340.7708263 --> 00:53:37,0.7708263 I know I get it. 580 00:53:37,20.7708263 --> 00:53:41,620.7708263 And oh, yes, the the so I love sleep. 581 00:53:41,740.7708263 --> 00:53:49,285.7708263 Like I was one of those people that During college I would sleep like 16 hours and my mother was like, what the fuck is wrong? You're ill. 582 00:53:49,485.7708263 --> 00:53:50,795.7708263 You're an ill person. 583 00:53:50,855.7708263 --> 00:53:53,405.7368263 Why are you sleeping this much? I was like, I don't know. 584 00:53:53,405.7368263 --> 00:53:54,105.7708263 I just can. 585 00:53:54,545.7698263 --> 00:53:57,275.7708263 So now I still love sleep. 586 00:53:58,295.7708263 --> 00:54:02,755.6708263 I, sometimes my body just doesn't, it won't fall asleep. 587 00:54:03,505.7708263 --> 00:54:07,235.7708263 if I'm, if I'm any kind of anxious, it won't fall asleep. 588 00:54:07,235.7708263 --> 00:54:25,5.7708263 So I have to like, I, I use the headspace app and we do like, they have these like sleep casts that are like basically somebody telling you a story mixed in with like either breathing exercise or visualization exercise, some type of meditation to help your mind kind of off. 589 00:54:25,35.7708263 --> 00:54:29,335.7708263 It helps me when I can listen to somebody else or something else. 590 00:54:29,820.7708263 --> 00:54:32,20.7708263 That way, I don't listen to my own thoughts. 591 00:54:33,180.7708263 --> 00:54:34,480.7708263 Like, that works for me. 592 00:54:35,710.7708263 --> 00:54:37,540.7708263 I hear you, Raquel. 593 00:54:37,540.7708263 --> 00:54:39,290.7708263 Thank you for writing a comment. 594 00:54:39,930.1716268 --> 00:54:40,440.1716268 Yes. 595 00:54:40,450.1716268 --> 00:54:40,850.1716268 Thank you. 596 00:54:40,850.1716268 --> 00:54:41,780.1716268 We appreciate it. 597 00:54:41,810.1716268 --> 00:54:45,340.1716268 And for everyone listening, we do want to hear from you. 598 00:54:45,790.1716268 --> 00:54:54,150.1716268 so if if you have a weird anxiety moment that's popped up in your body that's represented, please let us know. 599 00:54:55,130.1716268 --> 00:54:55,770.1706268 email us. 600 00:54:56,470.1716268 --> 00:55:00,390.1716268 And, uh, you know, we'll, we'll maybe feature you on, on the next episode. 601 00:55:01,343.5049601 --> 00:55:06,783.5049601 and if there's any other topics you would like us to talk about, um, definitely send them in. 602 00:55:07,293.5049601 --> 00:55:12,113.5049601 Christy, if you want to go ahead and let them know what our email address is, so they can reach out to us. 603 00:55:12,507.437493 --> 00:55:13,537.437493 please email us. 604 00:55:13,557.437493 --> 00:55:16,947.437493 at thespicybrainpod@gmail. 605 00:55:16,967.437493 --> 00:55:24,297.437493 com So again, that's thespicybrainpod at gmail. 606 00:55:24,297.437493 --> 00:55:30,317.437493 com all right, folks, thank you guys so much for joining us again. 607 00:55:30,397.437493 --> 00:55:36,857.436493 We look forward to talking about more fun things regarding mental health and, and life. 608 00:55:37,337.437493 --> 00:55:44,987.437493 And until the next time, may your brains be a little bit less spicy and your stomachs stay unbothered.

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