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Why You Still Feel Scared After the Doctor's Appointment

The appointment is over, but your mind is still there. You replay a phrase, question a facial expression, or wonder whether something was missed.

Even after receiving reassuring news, you struggle to move on.

In today's episode of The Anxiety Guy Podcast, Dennis Simsek revisits an important conversation about medical experiences and health anxiety: why a doctor's words can stay with you, how uncertainty becomes a focus of fear, and how to begin rebuilding trust in yourself.

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Why you may leave an appointment feeling more anxious than before.

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How replaying medical conversations can keep fear going.

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The inner protector's response to uncertainty.

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The practice of "returning to truth" when frightening interpretations take over.

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How to support yourself without repeatedly searching for reassurance.

You can follow medical guidance without spending the rest of your day mentally reliving the appointment.

Listen for one idea you can practice today, especially when you notice the urge to review, research, or seek another round of reassurance.

About Dennis Simsek

Dennis Simsek is the creator of The Anxiety Guy, an author, and an Anxiety Recovery Specialist. Drawing on his personal experience with anxiety and panic, he shares practical guidance to help listeners build self-trust and reconnect with life.

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Why You Keep Explaining Yourself to Everyone

You explain why you said no. You defend your decisions. You replay conversations and send another message to make sure nobody took you the wrong way.

Why does being misunderstood feel so threatening?

Overexplaining often goes beyond wanting to communicate clearly. It can become a way of avoiding judgment, preventing conflict, and seeking reassurance that you haven't disappointed anyone.

The relief is temporary. Soon, you're questioning yourself again and looking for the right words to make everyone understand.

In this episode of The Anxiety Guy Podcast, Dennis Simsek breaks down the fear behind overexplaining, how it feeds anxiety and people-pleasing, and how to stop making other people's approval a requirement for trusting yourself.

In this episode:

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The hidden fear: Why judgment, rejection, and misunderstanding can feel unsafe.

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The learned pattern: How keeping others happy may have become a way of protecting yourself.

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The reassurance trap: Why explaining more can strengthen the need for approval.

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The practical shift: How to give clear answers without repeatedly defending your choices.

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The recovery practice: Letting someone misunderstand you without immediately abandoning your position.

Your decisions do not need everyone's approval. Your boundaries do not need an endless defense.

Learn to recognize when you're communicating and when you're asking for permission to feel okay.

You don't need everyone to understand your decisions to trust yourself enough to make them.

About Dennis Simsek

Dennis Simsek is the creator of The Anxiety Guy, an author, and an anxiety recovery educator. Drawing on his personal experience with anxiety and panic, he shares practical guidance to help listeners build self-trust and reconnect with life.

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STOP TRYING TO THINK YOUR WAY OUT OF ANXIETY

What if the very thing you're doing to overcome anxiety is actually keeping you stuck?

You analyze your thoughts, question your feelings, replay conversations, and search for answers that will finally help you feel safe, certain, and in control.

But the more you try to think your way toward peace, the more mentally exhausted and disconnected from life you become.

Overthinking can feel productive because you're actively trying to solve something. Yet when every uncomfortable feeling becomes another problem to figure out, your mind learns to treat uncertainty as something that must be resolved before you can move forward.

The answer isn't necessarily to think better. It's to change your relationship with thinking itself.

In this episode of The Anxiety Guy Podcast, Dennis Simsek explores why trying to reason your way out of anxiety can strengthen the very patterns you're hoping to overcome, and how to begin stepping out of the cycle.

IN THIS EPISODE

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Why trying to solve every anxious thought can keep the cycle of worry alive.

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How searching for certainty and reassurance reinforces overthinking.

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Why understanding your anxiety doesn't always translate into emotional relief.

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How to recognize when problem-solving has become another form of anxiety management.

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Practical ways to stop engaging with every thought and begin responding with greater trust, acceptance, and self-compassion.

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Why meaningful recovery involves returning to life rather than waiting for your mind to become completely quiet.

You don't have to resolve every thought to begin experiencing peace. Sometimes recovery begins when you stop treating every thought as a problem that needs your attention.

ABOUT THE HOST

Dennis Simsek is the creator of The Anxiety Guy, an author, and an anxiety recovery educator who draws on his personal experience with anxiety, panic, and the journey toward lasting emotional freedom.

Follow The Anxiety Guy Podcast for weekly insights, practical recovery guidance, and compassionate conversations to help you change your relationship with anxiety and reconnect with life.

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EDUCATIONAL DISCLAIMER

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WHY ANXIETY IS SO EXHAUSTING

Do you feel drained even on days when you haven't done much?

Other people see you going through an ordinary day. They don't see the conversations you're rehearsing, the decisions you're questioning, or the problems you're preparing for before they happen.

Even your quiet moments can feel like work when you're trying to relax while checking whether you feel better yet.

In this episode of The Anxiety Guy Podcast, Dennis Simsek explores three ways anxiety can make everyday life feel exhausting and how to begin easing that daily mental effort.

IN THIS EPISODE

• How anticipating tomorrow's problems consumes today's attention. • Why replaying conversations and questioning decisions feels so draining. • How trying to relax can become another source of pressure. • Why constantly checking how you feel makes it difficult to switch off. • Practical ways to spend less of your day managing anxiety and more of it living.

ABOUT THE HOST

Dennis Simsek is the creator of The Anxiety Guy, an author, and an anxiety recovery educator who draws on his personal experience with anxiety and panic.

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5 CRUCIAL SIGNS YOU'RE HEALING ANXIETY

Are you overlooking your progress because you're still experiencing symptoms?

When you measure recovery only by how calm you feel, you can miss the deeper changes taking place. How you respond to discomfort, relate to uncertainty, and participate in life can reveal progress that symptom checking never will.

In this episode of The Anxiety Guy Podcast, Dennis Simsek explores five crucial signs you're healing anxiety and why recognizing them can change the way you see your recovery.

IN THIS EPISODE

• Why symptoms alone don't tell the whole story of recovery. • How to recognize meaningful changes in your relationship with anxiety. • Why difficult days don't automatically mean you're back at the beginning. • How to shift your focus from what still feels wrong to what is changing. • A more compassionate way to understand your progress.

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ABOUT THE HOST

Dennis Simsek is the creator of The Anxiety Guy, an author, and an anxiety recovery educator who draws on his personal experience with anxiety and panic.

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EDUCATIONAL DISCLAIMER

This podcast provides general education and is not a substitute for individualized medical or mental health care.

Tired of trying to calm down, only to fall back into the same anxiety patterns? Follow a daily plan to change how you meet worry, tension, and uncertainty with my End the Anxiety Program. https://anxietyguyprograms.com/b/end-the-anxiety-program

Today's Anxiety Guy Podcast Episode: Why Your Anxiety Never Settles (Even When You Try to Calm Down)

You've made anxiety recovery a priority. You've tried to calm your body and understand your symptoms. So why does a sense of safety still feel out of reach?

I recently shared something with my anxiety coaching group that I want to share with you. When every new sensation sends you back to checking, analysing, and searching for certainty, it can feel as though you're starting over.

In today's episode, we explore why trying to calm down doesn't always help anxiety settle, and what feeling safe might mean beyond the absence of symptoms. If you're tired of waiting to feel perfectly calm before you live, this conversation is for you.

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Today's Anxiety Guy Podcast Episode

Lately, inside our anxiety coaching group, we've been exploring a question that I believe can completely change the way we approach recovery:

What is your anxiety actually asking from you?

For many people, anxiety becomes something to fight, manage, analyze, or get rid of. But sometimes the symptoms, tension, exhaustion, overthinking, and constant inner alarm may be pointing toward something that has been missing.

Maybe your nervous system is asking for more personal time and fewer automatic yeses.

Maybe it's asking for more movement, adventure, play, connection, or confidence in your body.

Maybe it's asking you to finally speak up instead of continually swallowing your feelings, intentions, and needs.

And sometimes, it may simply be asking you to slow down enough to hear yourself again.

In today's episode, we explore several possibilities behind that question and how listening differently can begin removing some of the confusion, pressure, and struggle surrounding anxiety. This isn't about treating every symptom like a hidden message or finding another thing to fix. It's about becoming more curious about what your life, body, and nervous system may need from you now.

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Today's Health Anxiety Podcast Episode:

My Symptoms Were Real. But They Weren't Me.

For years, my symptoms felt personal. Every sensation seemed meaningful, threatening, and like proof that something was wrong.

In this episode, I share an important shift in my health anxiety recovery: learning to stop identifying with my symptoms and begin observing them instead.

We explore why health anxiety can turn physical sensations into part of our identity, how constant self-monitoring keeps us trapped inside the body, and what changes when we create space between "I am experiencing this" and "this is who I am."

This isn't about ignoring symptoms or forcing yourself to feel calm. It's about changing your relationship with what you feel and moving away from constant surveillance, interpretation, and urgency.

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Health anxiety can become more than a reaction to symptoms. Over time, the mind and nervous system can become conditioned to familiar states of fear, scanning, tension, and survival.

In this episode, Dennis explores the emotional refractory period and how repeated emotional states can keep the system locked into familiar patterns, even when there is no immediate danger. When fear has been practiced for long enough, the body can begin to expect it, the mind can search for reasons to justify it, and ordinary sensations can quickly become interpreted through the lens of threat.

We'll look at why health anxiety can feel so automatic, why reassurance often brings only temporary relief, and how repeatedly checking, monitoring, and anticipating symptoms can reinforce the very state you are trying to escape.

Most importantly, you'll learn why recovery is not simply about convincing yourself that you are safe. It is about gradually teaching your system that it no longer has to return to the same familiar emotional environment of fear and survival.

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Description: In today's episode, we explore 3 ways your inner protector may be keeping anxiety alive: worry, anticipation, and regret. Your inner protector is constantly trying to keep you safe, prepared, and in control, but when it becomes overactive, it can keep you trapped in what might happen, what could go wrong, or what you wish you had done differently.

We'll look at how worry feeds uncertainty, anticipation creates fear before anything happens, and regret keeps you emotionally tied to the past. The goal isn't to fight this protective part of you, but to recognize when protection has become overprotection and begin responding with more trust, flexibility, and presence. A powerful question to ask is: "Is this protecting me from something happening right now, or is it trying to protect me from uncertainty?"

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You've spent years holding things together. Now give yourself space to work on the patterns keeping anxiety alive. My End the Anxiety Program offers daily guidance for changing anxious thinking, responding to difficult emotions, and building self trust.

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Episode Description: In today's episode, we explore a piece of anxiety recovery that can easily be overlooked: grief. Grief doesn't always arrive as obvious sadness. It can build quietly through years of holding things in, staying strong, pushing forward, suppressing tears, and never fully allowing yourself to acknowledge what hurt.

Over time, that emotional accumulation may show up as tension, exhaustion, nervous system activation, irritability, heaviness, or a sense that your body is carrying more than you consciously realize.

We'll talk about what can happen when grief is finally given permission to move, through acknowledgement, emotional expression, crying, and allowing the younger parts of you to feel what they may never have felt safe enough to express before.

Instead of immediately asking, "How do I get rid of this anxiety?", another powerful question may be:

"What am I still carrying that I never allowed myself to grieve?"

Healing may sometimes involve less fighting and more permission, permission to feel, acknowledge, express, and finally allow what has been held inside for far too long.

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Episode Description: In today's episode, we look at how people pleasing, suppressed emotions, performance, and repeatedly overriding your internal "no" may contribute to anxiety, tension, and exhaustion. Instead of always asking, "How do I get rid of this symptom?", try asking, "What did I override?" Safety may not only be calmness; it may also be honesty, expression, boundaries, and living more in alignment with what feels true to you. Ask yourself: "What is my body trying to tell me right now, and what has it been trying to tell me all day?"

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Exhausted from pushing through while your mind keeps worrying? My End the Anxiety Program gives you daily guidance to change anxious patterns without making recovery another thing you pressure yourself to achieve.

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Today's Episode on Anxiety and Burnout: What Is Your Body Trying to Tell You?

What if some of the exhaustion you experience is not only about how much you are doing, but how much of yourself you are overriding while doing it? In today's episode, we explore the connection between anxiety, burnout, prolonged nervous system activation, people pleasing, emotional suppression, and repeatedly ignoring what your body is communicating. You may wake up feeling tired, tense, dizzy, heavy, or mentally drained and immediately assume you did too much physically. But another question may be more revealing: What did I override?

• Maybe you wanted to say no but said yes.
• Maybe you felt anger or resentment but stayed quiet.
• Maybe you kept performing, pleasing, smiling, or pushing forward while internally bracing.

Over time, constantly overriding these internal signals can become biological work and contribute to prolonged activation. The body may first communicate quietly through tension, irritation, fatigue, resistance, or a simple internal feeling of no. When those signals are repeatedly ignored, the body may begin turning up the volume.

The goal is not to analyze every sensation or allow symptoms to control your life. It is to become more honest and responsive to yourself. Sometimes that means resting, speaking up, asking for help, setting a boundary, or saying no. Other times it means recognizing fear while still moving toward something you genuinely want. Instead of immediately asking, "How do I get rid of this symptom?" ask, "What is my body actually showing me here?" And at the end of the day, ask yourself: "What is my body trying to tell me right now?" and "What has my body been trying to tell me all day?"

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Host: Dennis Simsek

Understanding anxiety doesn't automatically change the habits feeding it. My End the Anxiety Program helps you turn insight into daily practice, with a structured path to work on worry, overthinking, and fear based responses.

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Today's Episode: Why You're Still Anxious: A Deep Conversation About What Keeps Anxiety Alive

In this powerful and deeply honest conversation with Julie, we explore why anxiety can continue even when you are doing everything you can to recover.

This anxiety guy podcast episode goes far beyond symptoms. We uncover the hidden patterns, beliefs, reactions, and survival responses that can keep anxiety alive even when you understand anxiety intellectually and have spent years trying to overcome it.

Through Julie's honest questions and personal experiences, we explore the urgency to recover, resistance towards symptoms, the need for certainty, the pressure to feel better, and the habit of constantly measuring whether recovery is working.

You may have tried calming techniques, mindset work, reassurance, meditation, exposure, nervous system exercises, or countless methods designed to make anxiety disappear. Yet something may still feel stuck.

The reason may not be that you are missing another technique. It may be that your nervous system is still receiving the message that your present experience is unacceptable, unsafe, or must immediately change.

This conversation will help you recognise why your symptoms may not be the real problem. The deeper cycle is often created by the meaning attached to those symptoms and the fearful relationship that develops around them.

When every sensation is monitored, judged, resisted, questioned, or treated as an emergency, the brain continues receiving the message that something is wrong.

This episode is longer than my regular podcast episodes, but it is certainly worth the deeper listen. It may provide the clarity you have been searching for and help you understand what has truly been keeping anxiety alive.

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✨ Today's Episode: Your Symptoms Aren't the Real Problem

Health anxiety convinces you that your symptoms must disappear before you can finally feel safe. But the constant monitoring, resistance, and urgency to fix them may be what keeps your nervous system on alert.

In this episode, I share the inner shift that changes how you respond to uncomfortable sensations. When you stop treating every symptom as a problem that must be solved immediately, you begin teaching your brain and body that the experience may be uncomfortable without automatically meaning danger.

The goal is not to ignore your symptoms. It is to stop allowing them to determine whether or not you feel safe. This is where trust begins, the fear cycle starts to weaken, and lasting healing becomes possible.

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Stay With Yourself: The Anxiety Recovery Principle That Changes Everything

You may understand anxiety very well and still feel stuck in the same cycle.

For years, I believed recovery meant getting rid of fear, symptoms, and uncomfortable emotions. What I did not realize was that every time discomfort appeared, I abandoned myself through researching, analyzing, fixing, worrying, and trying to understand what everything meant.

In this episode, I share a simple principle that has become deeply important to me: Stay With Yourself.

In This Episode

• Why anxiety can lead to self-abandonment • What it really means to stay with yourself • Why you do not need to understand every emotion • How releasing the need for certainty creates freedom • Why self-presence supports lasting recovery

Reflection

What would it look like to remain by your own side today without trying to fix, explain, or improve what you are feeling?

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The Truth About the Part of You Beyond Anxiety

What if the part of you beyond anxiety isn't missing at all?

Many people spend years trying to fix themselves through more effort, more healing work, and more self-analysis. Yet the deeper self they long to reconnect with rarely responds to pressure.

In this episode, we explore why the part of you beyond fear, overthinking, and survival mode may be far quieter than you expect. Rather than forcing its way into your life, it may simply be waiting for evidence that you are ready to stop abandoning yourself and start listening.

You'll discover why healing cannot be forced, how self-fixing can unintentionally keep anxiety alive, and why safety, honesty, and self-trust create the conditions for lasting recovery.

In This Episode

• Why the self beyond anxiety is often quiet rather than dramatic

• How years of self-fixing can keep you disconnected from yourself

• Why safety and self-trust are essential for recovery

• What it means to welcome the part of you that exists beyond fear

Reflection

What would the part of you beyond anxiety need to see from you today in order to feel safe enough to step forward?

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Why Medical Reassurance Stops Working for Health Anxiety | The Anxiety Guy Podcast

There comes a point in the health anxiety cycle where another test, another appointment, another explanation, or another "you're fine" no longer brings the peace it once did.

This, I believe is because health anxiety is rarely satisfied by information alone.

In this episode of The Anxiety Guy Podcast we will explore what happens when the mind becomes dependent on outside confirmation before it feels safe in the body. You may know logically that you have been checked. You may have been reassured more than once. You may even understand that anxiety can create real physical symptoms. Yet something inside still asks, "But what if this time is different?"

This episode will help you understand why reassurance can become part of the fear pattern, how the search for certainty keeps the nervous system on alert, and why true recovery requires something deeper than another answer.

Inside this episode, we'll explore:

• Why reassurance can calm the mind briefly but fail to create lasting safety.
• How health anxiety teaches the brain to mistrust the body.
• Why repeated checking, researching, and asking can keep the alarm system active.
• How to begin responding to symptoms without turning them into threats.
• Why recovery is not about being 100% certain, but becoming more grounded in uncertainty.

This conversation is for anyone who feels stuck in the loop of body scanning, Googling symptoms, asking others for reassurance, replaying doctor visits, or needing one more sign that everything is okay.

Healing begins when you stop outsourcing safety to the next answer and begin rebuilding a steady relationship with yourself.

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Episode Description:

In today's episode of The Anxiety Guy Podcast, we explore one of the most overlooked parts of anxiety recovery: the inner connection to what you've been pushing away for so long.

When anxiety symptoms, discomfort, fear, or exhaustion show up, the inner protector often wants to pull your attention toward fixing, analyzing, escaping, or "doing something about it." But what if the next step in healing isn't another technique, but a different relationship with what you feel?

Today we'll talk about the practice of sitting with what is, in this very moment not as a way to force anxiety symptoms away, but as a way to finally stop abandoning the parts of you that have been asking for your presence.

You'll learn why your symptoms of anxiety may be carrying a deeper message, how nervous system sensitivity and burnout can become conditioned over time, and why love doesn't always mean feeling warm and peaceful. Sometimes love simply means respecting what is here, without pushing it away.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• Why the inner protector keeps pulling you away from being with your symptoms
• How "doing something about it" can sometimes keep the anxiety cycle alive
• Why allowing is not giving up, but reconnecting
• How the phrase "sit with what is, in this very moment" can become a recovery practice
• Why symptoms may be asking for connection rather than control

Episode reflection:

What part of you have you been trying to get rid of that may simply be asking you to finally be with it?

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Disclaimer

This podcast is for educational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. Please consult your healthcare provider regarding any medical or mental health concerns.

Credits

Host: Dennis Simsek, The Anxiety Guy

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Episode:

In this episode of The Anxiety Guy Podcast, Dennis explores the common patterns he continues to hear from people who have healed anxiety led nervous system burnout.

If you have been dealing with anxiety symptoms, chronic stress, nervous system dysregulation, health anxiety, exhaustion, overthinking, body tension, or the constant feeling of trying to "fix" yourself, this episode will help you see recovery from a calmer and more grounded perspective.

Rather than chasing every symptom, forcing the body to calm down, or turning healing into another full time job, Dennis shares a more sustainable way to understand anxiety recovery and nervous system healing.

This episode is a reminder that healing is not always about doing more. Sometimes, it begins when the nervous system no longer feels like it has to fight, monitor, or protect all day long.

The Anxiety Guy Podcast is about anxiety recovery, nervous system healing, health anxiety, emotional healing, and finding inner peace beyond fear.

Join the Community & Subscribe

Join over 250,000+ subscribers on YouTube for more anxiety recovery content: https://youtube.com/theanxietyguy1

Join the Health Anxiety University Community: https://www.skool.com/health-anxiety-university/about

Connect with Dennis Simsek

Instagram: @theanxietyguy

Disclaimer

This podcast is for educational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. Please consult your healthcare provider regarding any medical or mental health concerns.

Credits

Host: Dennis Simsek, The Anxiety Guy