Dr. John Delony

I'm not just gonna climb up in my kitchen and take the batteries out of the alarm and call it good because my house will burn down.

If you put your head down on your pillow and your brain takes off and starts racing, if you snap awake at 2.42 every morning or at 5.15 every morning and your eyes are wide open and your heart's racing, if people slowly stop wanting to be around you because you're an electric presence,

if you are walking around thinking, if they would jest, and I don't care who they is, and I don't care what jest is, but if you've distilled the world down in very simple cause and effects that you think you've got the answers, those are usually signs that your body's trying to get your attention.

If you think you have identified the reason the world is falling apart, if the world would just listen to you, if you think essential oils will cure cancer, like if you start coming up with these crazy, if you spend more time on conspiracy theories than on trying to be healthy and trying to do the next right thing for your relationships and your job, that's usually a sign that your body's starting to implode on itself.

She's way, way, way smarter than me.

that's one of the chief curses of our time is that our identity becomes these labels that we're given.

You have anxiety, you have depression, you are depressed.

It becomes the way we enter into every room and it becomes the lens by which we view the world and we're told we're broken.

And so if your house is on fire and your smoke detector is going off,

Nobody would say your house is broken.

They would say your house is working perfectly.

It's on fire.

And so I think it's changing the language.

I love, he's an old psychiatrist.

He's passed away many years ago, but Dr. Glasser, William Glasser said, he wouldn't let his patients say, I have anxiety or I am anxious.

He would make them say, I am anxiety or I'm depressing.

I am compulsioning, right?

My body is doing these things in an effort to take care of me.

Let's get to the bottom of why my body thinks this environment I'm in isn't safe.

This relationship I'm in isn't safe.