Is your anxiety about AI actually trying to help you? In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Tracy Dennis Tiwary to talk about AI anxiety, overdiagnosis, ADHD, and why we’ve medicalized so much of our emotional life that we’ve lost sight of what it means to be human. Tracy shares why we were unprepared for the mental health fallout of social media, why we’re just as unprepared for AI, and how leaders can support teams through technological uncertainty without collapsing into fear or false certainty. Tune in to learn how to engage with AI without losing your humanity and how to work with your anxiety instead of treating it like an enemy.

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In this Episode, You Will Learn

00:00 Why AI anxiety is showing up differently for each of us.

06:45 Is AI an intelligence or just a (very powerful) tool?

10:45 How calling AI “smart” and human-like hides what it actually does.

14:00 Why we weren’t prepared for social media’s mental health impact.

15:15 Ways to use chatbots and therapeutic AI without getting lost in them.

21:00 ADHD, dichotomies, and how medicalizing mental health distorts what diagnoses can do.

26:00 Why treating symptoms isn’t the same as healing.

29:00 If mental illness isn’t just a broken brain, what is it?

30:30 Why there is no single biomarker for conditions like bipolar disorder or ADHD.

38:45 Why anxiety is tied to uncertainty, hope, and creativity. 

43:30 Where does stress fit alongside anxiety and fear?

48:15 Advice to someone who has AI anxiety.

Resources + Links

Get a copy of my book - The Anxious Achiever

Watch the podcast on YouTube 

Find more resources on our website morraam.com

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