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Metaphor on Anxiety

Name: Metaphor on Anxiety
Uploaded: 2024-04-22T21:07:15+00:00
Duration: 43 s
Channel: Dr. Kevin Skinner
Description: A short YouTube excerpt (Dr. Kevin Skinner, April 22, 2024) using a thermostat metaphor to explain anxiety and emotional regulation: anxiety feels like…

22 Apr 2024 · 1 min

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A short YouTube excerpt (Dr. Kevin Skinner, April 22, 2024) using a thermostat metaphor to explain anxiety and emotional regulation: anxiety feels like the thermostat being turned up (overheating), while emotional regulation is turning it down to a comfortable level; turning it too far down leads to shutdown/freeze. Emphasizes emotional awareness and teaching children to recognize and learn from core emotions (stress, loneliness, fear).

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One more metaphor here. Anxiety is like turning up the thermostat in the house, and it's just getting hotter and hotter, and all of a sudden, it's not. It's not 70, it's 80, 90. It's just hot. That's what anxiety feels like. Now, emotional regulation is the ability to turn the thermostat down so it feels comfortable. If we go too far down, then we just shut down. It's. We've been overwhelmed, and it's literally cold. Frozen is a term we use. So we want to figure out how to regulate our emotions and teach our children to do the same thing. So we're emotionally aware. I'm stressed, I'm lonely, I'm scared, I'm afraid. All of those common core emotions, and we're not afraid of them. We learn from them.