In this episode 6 protocols
▶ 50:18 Use Medication to Lower Anxiety Enough to Think Clearly Behaviors “Maybe a medicine helps, right? Maybe a medicine helps to just take down the anxiety and the tension in the person. Then the person can sort of think more about it, engage in therapy ultimately navigate to where he wanted to be then we get back away from the medicine.” ▷ 1:27:11 Track Thoughts Across Different Arousal States Behaviors “I've started doing this recently based on our discussions here. And I've noticed that under different states of arousal, and here I'm talking specifically about sleepiness versus alertness type arousal... where my mind is at, where it defaults to, and what I'm paying attention to throughout the day is that just asking myself to notice.” ▷ 1:30:14 Investigate the Origins of Intrusive Thoughts Behaviors “Absolutely i mean one example you could have intrusive thoughts because there's trauma in your background maybe very clear trauma that you're not facing and addressing and then you have intrusive thoughts that say i'm not safe okay go look for what's still in the unconscious mind or when it comes out a little bit you push back into the unconscious mind.” ▷ 1:54:34 Acknowledge Intrusive Thoughts Without Treating Them as Actionable Behaviors “And like, I know that thought appears in me automatically at times because it was in my head for so long, but it does not telling me anything, right? It's just an automatic thought.” ▷ 2:55:56 Seek Clinical Care When Problems Are Dominating Life Behaviors “And maybe I won't just talk to a trusted other, you know, or, and go get a book, but maybe I should, and maybe I should have a clinical care.” ▷ 3:02:19 Reduce Excessive Social Media and Replace It With Previously Good Activities Behaviors “Maybe it's the other way around that this person just kind of habituated to doing more and more and more and more of it. And then you would come at it in a different way of, okay, can you slowly but surely do less, you know, replace the time with things that were good before?”