Overcoming anxiety

Strategies to manage anxiety

Anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness in the United States. According to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, anxiety disorders affect 18% of adults age 18 and older and 25% of children between 13 and 18 in the U.S. But despite their prevalence, they are still often misunderstood and therefore go undiagnosed and untreated.

On this episode, Deloitte chief well-being officer Jen Fisher talks with Dr. Judson Brewer a renowned addiction psychiatrist and neuroscientist. Dr. Brewer is an associate professor at Brown University and executive medical director at Sharecare. His new book Unwinding Anxiety: New Science Shows How to Break the Cycles of Worry and Fear to Heal Your Mind is now a New York Times best seller.

We developed this program and as a researcher, I wanted to study to see if we could actually approach anxiety in the same way that we had been tackling other habits. Long story short, we did a couple of clinical studies. We got a 57% reduction in clinically validated anxiety scores in anxious physicians. We did another study with people with generalized anxiety disorder, we got a 67% reduction.

- Dr. Judson Brewer, renowned psychiatrist and neuroscientist

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