She went to the ER, multiple times, with anxiety???
Yeah, before she knew it was actually anxiety. She (and her partner at the time) thought (many times) it was a stroke... the physical symptoms must have been pretty bad. She also said that part of her anxiety now also is based on the fear of something wrong happening to her health wise, she said that when she has a panic attack she always checks the list of symptoms of a panic attack to make sure it's that and not a stroke even though she's had anxiety for years.
I’ve only just started watching Lizzy recently.
i wanted to post here because I really take issue with some of the comments. This is not an easy time for anybody. Anxiety isn’t a competition. If it was was where would it end, arguably people with post natal depression should be dismissed as lucky because they don’t have infertility issues. That doesn’t happen thankfully. Of course some people have it worse than others financially & otherwise in Covid times. But I don’t agree that someone who hasn’t lost their job or worse shouldn’t feel anxious or complain. For starters it’s a very lonely time for people & loneliness is incredibly bad for us.
And so what if someone went to ER with anxiety the medical system treats all conditions not just physical last time I checked. I don’t think it’s the best way to get help but she probably wasn’t thinking rationally.
I'm not judging if she should or shouldn't complain/feel anxious. Everyone's different and handles their emotions in a different way, but as a long time Lizzy follower and after listening to what she described as anxiety, I believe she doesn't suffer from it, she just has bad days like everyone else does (probably worse during covid times). Even she seems to feel uncomfortable when saying she has anxiety (not just on this ocasion, many times before) because I think deep down she knows she doesn't have it, but it's become such a normalized thing specially on the internet/influencer world that sometimes the word is thrown around. On a different episode of their podcast, could have been on a different season, she actually said "I DON'T HAVE ANXIETY", and I believe she still doesn't have it.
It might be silly but I think that even the way they talk about it says something about how they both feel when it comes to anxiety. Lindsay didn't speak much during the episode and seemed quite reflective, her tone of voice appearing pretty quiet and weak. Lizzy on the other hand was laughing while she was speaking about how she called Lindsay crying because she had anxiety while shopping for plants. I feel that she was just having a bad bad day and exploded, like it happens to everyone. If it had been a full on panic attack she wouldn't find it so funny (specially having happened just a couple of days before recording the podcast).
Now I don't think Lizzy is lying on purpose, I just think that the word "anxiety" has become very normalized and to a certain extent misused. But again this is my opinion of course and at the end of the day we only know about them wha the chose to show.