Dr. Don WoodResolving Your Trauma-Based Challenges So You Can Unlock Peak Performance

"You Must Be Out of Your Mind" Clip2

21 Oct 2022 · 1 min

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Short clip of Dr. Don Wood discussing anxiety as a functional brain response rather than a dysfunction, and describing interplay between psychological and medical conditions using his daughter's case (psychological issues producing medical symptoms). The speaker frames anxiety as protective and advocates investigating root causes.

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Why is your mind anxious? Right. So reason. It's not a dysfunction. It's a function. Everything comes down to, oh, there's these. All these dysfunctions, you know, depression, things like that. And I'm saying, no, I believe it's a function of the brain. The brain is shutting down for a reason. Something is wrong, and it's trying to protect you. So let's figure out where it's coming from. And I was just on another podcast this morning, too, and I thought it was an interesting way, the way I think the advantage I had when I started to look for answers for my daughter, because my daughter had some serious medical issues. Yes. I was coming in from a different perspective. I was not coming in. So she had two issues. One was her medical, and the other one was her psychological. So if she goes to the medical side, they're going to be treating the medical condition, but it was actually the psychological condition that was creating the medical condition.