# Stoicism, Anxiety, and and Marcus Aurelius ... Gone Wrong? | EP 333

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Podcast: [The Anxious Truth - A Panic, Anxiety, and Mental Health Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-anxious-truth-a-panic-anxiety-and-mental-health-podcast-1095844)
Published: 2025-12-17T14:00:00+00:00
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Duration seconds: 1831

## Resource

If you're struggling with panic disorder, health anxiety, OCD, GAD, or other anxiety issues you've may have encountered online content that references Stoicism, warrior philosophy, and Marcus Aurelius. The message: master your emotions, be tough, control your fear through discipline and suffering. But that's not what Marcus Aurelius was actually writing about. In this episode, I dig into what Marcus actually wrote in his Meditations—his personal diary that accidentally survived 2,500 years....

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