Anxiety

Monday Mental Health Motivation: Jay describes anxiety and what it feels like to have a anxiety/panic attack to hopefully make you feel not as alone.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back to a Breakable mental health podcast with Jay Glazer.
I'm Jay Glazer, and if you're like many people, you
may be surprised to learn that one in five adults
in this country experienced mental illness last year. Yet far
too many fella received the support they need. Carolyn, behavior
health is doing something about it. They understand that behavioral
health is a key part of whole health, delivering compassionate

(00:20):
care that treats physical, mental, emotional, and social needs in tandem.
Carol and behavior all raising the quality of life through
empathy and action. Welcome into Monday motivation and what I
want to do today and what I'm trying to do
with this podcast, with this book is give mental health words.
You have depression, you have anxiety of ADHD. But today

(00:41):
I'm going to focus on anxiety because when I went
through my panic attacks, my anxiety attack really first started
first started in two thousand and five. I was an
empty raider stadium. I didn't know what was happening. I
thought it was having a heart attack. If I had
the words that have had the description, I would have
felt safer. So today I'm going to describe anxiety and

(01:02):
what it feels like to have an anxiety attack or
panic attack totally make you feel not as low that
first panic attack I suffered two thousand and five, and
by the way, I now have them every single time
I go on TV. I don't understand why I'm not
afraid to go on TV. I don't fear word it's
about to happen. I love it. I love being out
there with all of you, and that's how I feel.

(01:23):
I feel like I'm out there review Yet Nah, when
these panic attacks happen, these anxiety attacks happen, my hands
starts shaking, my eyes start darting back and forth, I
start sweating, and it starts feeling like I'm gonna have
a heart attack. It's hard to breathe, my heart starts
raising a million miles a minute. That's what it feels
like to have a panic attack. So when it first happened,

(01:44):
no one described it back to the So in the
next twelve years, I was getting my heart checked out
for a heart attack, so I thought was happening. It
wasn't until I heard Terry Bradshaw, my teammate and Fox
describe it one day. You talk about where I said, Ah,
that's what I have. That's what it is. And then
I started learning more about it, and I learned I'm safe.

(02:04):
I'm not gonna pass out, I'm not gonna die, I'm
not gonna have a heart attack. Right there. I'm safe.
I'm okay. So everybody out there who's listening to this,
I hope you understand nothing's wrong with you. If you
have these issues, you're like a lot of us. We
just don't talk about it. Nobody ever talked about it,
so we didn't know. I didn't know how many other
people had this in common with me until I started

(02:24):
talking about it. When I came out with the book
Unbreakable and I started doing my media tour for it,
I was blown away by how many close friends of mine,
how many people reached out said, oh my god, that's
what it is. I have it too, And it was
incredible that I was able to give them that relief
that I got from Terry Bradshaw. So again, folks, if

(02:46):
you're dealing with this, you're safe, you're okay. Just keep
remind yourself you're not gonna let this thing within. Let's
keep walking this walk together.