Personal experiences - Anxiety Video Transcripts
Video 1 Transcript
My personal experience with anxiety started when I moved from Korea to the United States, because I didn't know the culture here and because I didn't know English, I didn't know how to speak or listen, I couldn't really understand. And I felt like I couldn't be part of this culture, I couldn't talk this language, so it made me very feel stressed, fear, scary whenever I try to go make friends. Because of that, I can't communicate in English, so a lot of people did not welcome me. But I noticed that, that's how I became familiar with culture, language, and people here. I noticed that people are also going to help me and guide me to get out the anxiety that I had. So that's my personal experience.
Video 2 Transcript
I've dealt with anxiety since middle school, and when I was in middle school, it mostly came from my participation in sports. I played competitive volleyball, and I would find myself just feeling sick before every game, throwing up at practices, games, tournaments, tryouts, and that was really hard. And as I got older, it just turned into more of a thing, just my thoughts. My mind doesn't shut off, and I worry a lot about things that I realize that I can't control, and worrying about the future. And it's been really hard, but therapy helps a lot, and just talking to other people who love you and who support you, I know you can get through it.
Video 3 Transcript
So my personal experience with anxiety started when I, after my wife had a really bad experience with psychosis and was hospitalized out of the blue. Neither of us saw it coming and really traumatic for both of us and then I started having anxiety after that. So I actually developed what was called panic disorder and I started having all these weird panic attacks and things where I'd you know be, I think I was having a heart attack or something and if you ever had anxiety I think you know you probably know what I mean. It feels crazy, you feel crazy, you feel like the world's coming to an end. Not fun, I don't like it but something, there's a lot of ways to help with it and I found that using supplements and relaxation techniques and mindfulness meditation as well as just talking openly about my feelings really, really helps me.
Video 4 Transcript
Experiences of anxiety are all positive. Anxious to try something new because either it's terrifying or it's detrimental potentially and then using that to accelerate my opportunities and potential to overcome them and that has always led me to progress at a dramatic rate.
Video 5 Transcript
I get a lot of anxiety and I notice anxiety myself where I don't feel stressed like surface level like I might have a busy week I'm like no yeah I can pray that I got it but then I just am generally more like agitated and like on edge and then maybe like when I end the day I'm like oh no like there's there's some stuff like in there right now like I'm really stressed out and so I think that sometimes recognizing it when it's not easily like recognizable um that was a big turning point for me and being able to like manage anxious feelings
Video 6 Transcript
So there are just two things that I can think of that I want to share. First off, ever since I've ever had to talk on the phone, I've hated it. I'm fine with video calling, that's my preferred method of communication via technology, but talking on the phone, it just, I hate it. It makes me so anxious. Other than that, my first experience I can think of overthinking was when I was like eight years old. My family was in our living room with some friends and I went to my bedroom for something and I heard them talking and laughing and I had the thought, man, they're having more fun without me. Anyway, so ever since then, I've just noticed it's kind of continued to be a problem.
