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Anxiety Recovery: Feeling Good About Feeling Bad? | Ep 325
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- Sep 10, 2025
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Summary
There's whole industry built around helping people feel good about feeling bad, and while validation has its place, this endless cycle of anxiety content might actually be keeping you stuck. In this episode, we explore how consuming validation-focused content can become a form of modern reassurance-seeking that maintains anxiety disorders rather than promoting recovery. We'll discuss the research showing that excessive reassurance-seeking provides immediate relief but leads to increased anxie...