517 Is This Anxiety or Intuition? (How to Know the Difference)

517 是焦虑还是直觉?(如何分辨二者)

Your Anxiety Toolkit - Anxiety & OCD Strategies for Everyday

2026-10-09

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In this episode, I talk about one of the trickiest questions people with anxiety face: How do you know whether something is anxiety or intuition? Sometimes anxiety can disguise itself as a gut feeling or a warning that something bad is about to happen, making it difficult to know whether to trust what you're feeling.
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  • Okay, let's start this episode with a little pop quiz.

  • I'm going to give you some thoughts

  • that you may have had and you are going to decide if it is either anxiety or intuition.

  • So let's see.

  • Number one, don't get on the plane.

  • Is that anxiety or is that intuition?

  • Another one is, I just have this bad feeling about this person.

  • Is it anxiety or is it intuition?

  • The last one is something just doesn't feel right.

  • You know that feeling like it's just this overall body feeling like something doesn't feel right here.

  • Is that anxiety or is that intuition?

  • Well, the answer might surprise you because the truth is it could be either.

  • It could be one or the other, or in some cases, it could be both.

  • The good news is there are some helpful ways in which you can tell the difference between

  • anxiety and intuition so that you don't spend your entire day either avoiding or ruminating about which is which.

  • In this episode of Your Anxiety Toolkit, I am going to teach you how to tell the difference

  • between anxiety and intuition and show you some sneaky ways that anxiety can disguise itself as intuition.

  • I think of it like anxiety gets dressed up in a Halloween costume and the costume it's chosen this year is intuition.

  • That's the way I always like to think of it.

  • And I'm going to hopefully get it to where you can reduce