Why Your Brain Craves Constant Stimulation (Leading to More Anxiety)

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June 2, 2025 • 10 mins

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Podcast description:

In this episode of The Anxiety Guy Podcast, Dennis gets real about something so many of us feel but rarely understand: the restless need for constant stimulation and why stillness feels almost impossible when your nervous system is dysregulated.

If you find yourself bouncing from symptom to symptom, app to app, or thought to thought—this conversation is for you. Dennis breaks down how years of anxiety, stress, and survival mode train your body to stay on high alert, and why that constant buzz isn’t who you are it’s just who you learned to be.

You’ll learn how to stop treating your symptoms like emergencies, how to stop fearing every sensation, and how to finally come back to yourself without needing perfect conditions. Through personal insights and practical tools from The Middle Way (the next book), Dennis shows how healing begins not when everything calms down, but when you stop fighting your experience.

Resources Mentioned:

Emotional Freedom Techniques on The Anxiety Guy YouTube Channel
Surrender Session Meditations on YouTube
Health Anxiety University (Support Group)

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