Adults are relating to the movie “because this stuff—anxiety—wasn’t talked about back then like it is now,” says Kristen Gingrich, a clinical social worker.
As an adult, Barb Baker, of Detroit, didn’t have particularly high expectations for Pixar’s new movie, Inside Out 2. But the animated film’s portrayal of anxiety really hit her “like a ton of bricks,” Baker tells SELF: “I’ve let anxiety steer the wheel of my life.” Baker’s father died when she was a kid, and sitting in the theater, she realized she hadn’t fully moved on. “I was still a six-year-old mourning his passing, void of joy, and pretending to show others how ‘strong’ I was,” she says.
He felt like the movie “held a mirror” in front of people who deal with anxiety. “The whirlwind that Anxiety causes in herself is so real. We’ve all spiraled in some way like that before,” he says. “It showed us that even if anxiety is a part of us, it doesn’t define us, and we can learn to love all aspects of ourselves.” Anxiety does serve a purpose, Gingrish says. “It keeps us safe, but it also helps us develop our sense of self,” she says.
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