HeyJaredThe Anxiety Encyclopedia
Co-hosts Lorien and Katharine talk about what's making them anxious, from bears to Botox and everything in between.
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161. N is for Nightmare Haunted Attractions (opens the original)
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Katharine takes Lorien on a virtual tour of places she does not want to go. Sources: Sources: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/oct/30/extreme-haunted-house-masochists-mckamey-manor https://www.cracked.com/article_44002_5-actual-deaths-in-haunted-houses.html https://www.ranker.com/list/people-died-halloween-attractions/harrison-tenpas https://www.grunge.com/245113/disturbing-things-that-actually-happened-at-haunted-houses/ https://www.wbir.com/article/news/crime/real-life-nashville-n
160. C is for Cryonics (opens the original)
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Okay, but what if Walt Disney's head IS frozen under Pirates of the Caribbean?! (It's not.) Sources: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/how-a-strange-rumor-of-walt-disneys-death-became-legend https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/suspended-animation/ https://cryonics.org/cryonics-library/the-prospect-of-immortality/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryonics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryoprotectant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KrioRus https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/nov/18/the-cryonics-di
159. S is for Secret Societies (opens the original)
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You CAN sit with us while Katharine talks about groups you can't sit with. Sources: https://www.wired.com/story/leak-exposes-members-of-peter-thiels-secretive-dialog-society/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialog_(organization) https://www.history.com/articles/the-knights-templar https://www.history.com/articles/secret-societies-freemasons-knights-templar https://beafreemason.org/ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/freemasons-history-conspiracy-secret https://www.history.com/artic
158. F is for Fatal Insomnia (opens the original)
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Lorien shares an anxiety that could keep people up at night. Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal_insomnia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmissible_spongiform_encephalopathy https://www.merckmanuals.com/home/brain-spinal-cord-and-nerve-disorders/prion-diseases/fatal-insomnia#Diagnosis_v8549039 https://rarediseases.org/rare-diseases/fatal-familial-insomnia/ https://neuroscientificallychallenged.com/posts/know-your-brain-fatal-insomnia https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1781276/ h
157. T is for Tuberculosis (opens the original)
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Katharine is also inspired by John Green but maybe a little more meaningfully than Lorien was. Also, Katharine just took a vacation to Japan and a lot of things about that made her anxious and joyful. Sources: https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/tuberculosis https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/tuberculosis/symptoms-causes/syc-20351250 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuberculosis#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_tuberculosis Everything is Tuberculosis by John
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