Bassem Youssef on Anxiety, Identity and the Fear of Doing Nothing

Subscribe for more! https://www.youtube.com/@muslimi?sub_confirmation=1 After October 7th, the anxiety became crippling. And it forced Bassem Youssef to confront something he had been carrying since childhood. At Penny Appeal Canada's "Voices of Resilience" event, Bassem opens up about what happened to him internally in the aftermath of October 7th. The anxiety hit at a level he could not manage. He could not sleep. He could not function. And in trying to understand why, he traced it back to something his mother had planted in him with the best of intentions. Like many children raised in Middle Eastern households, he was pushed relentlessly to study. By third or fourth grade it had already become internalized. He did not need his mother to push him anymore. The voice was now his own. If he was not sitting in front of a book, something was wrong. If he was not productive, he was lacking. If he was not doing, he was nothing. What October 7th did was take away his ability to simply keep moving. And when the doing stopped, he came face to face with what was underneath it. A deeply uncomfortable feeling of worthlessness that had nothing to do with what was actually true about him as a person, but everything to do with a belief he had absorbed so early he never thought to question it. So many of us are running the same programme without realizing it. . #Muslimi #BassemYoussef #PennyAppealCanada #MentalHealth #ProductivityAndWorth