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Red Table Talk: Heath Intervention Question #3: Anxiety

9 Oct 2019 · 1 min

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Adrienne Banfield-Norris, Willow Smith, and Jada Pinkett Smith discuss anxiety using a stress scale. Willow's baseline sits around five, Jada's at seven. Willow describes acute episodes including an eight before Coachella, sleeplessness, vomiting, and a stomach pain severe enough to send her to an Australian emergency room.

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Nervousness, anxiety, worry. Don't knock off the rafters. Willow, on a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being major stress, where do you find your stress? Typically, I have anxiety, so, like, my stress, I'll go from zero to nine, like, instantly, and I'd just be like. And then I'll go back to two. I'm probably on a consistent five.
Just fine.
I said consistent.
Feels like a seven to us.
I rested seven.
We would say your resting state of stress is a seven.
Oh, I can have that. I'll take your five. Yes.
Like, right before Coachella, I was not doing good. I feel like I was at, like, an 8 of stress.
You weren't looking good at the time?
No, I wasn't looking good. I wasn't feeling good.
You weren't sleeping?
I wasn't sleeping. I also had that one time where, like, I threw up that whole day. Oh, yeah.
Where your stomach was upset.
That happened twice.
I had the other time in Australia to where I was in so much pain in my stomach in the emergency room. That's one of those things where, like, they just give you, like, some pills that scared me. They never.
I was about to hop on the plane to Australia. Like, I'll be damned.
We all were.
Some of my family would say that I would call me, quote, unquote, high strung. I disagree. Oh, yeah. Gam. Oh, no, definitely, ma', am, you are.
You vehemently disagree?
No.
You're high strung.
Yeah.
So.
Stress can manifest in some pretty intense ways, right?
Yes, definitely.
We'll dive into stress coping. All right.