How Anxiety Nearly Destroyed INSIDE OUT 2

I love the way you've explained the movie.

Anxiety is the only one that comes with baggage, which is such a clever detail! 😊

I love how they depicted Anxiety at the control board, where she's moving really fast, but also staying still at the same time.That's how I've felt with my anxiety.

Just took my son and went with friends to see it yesterday. His therapist said it was his homework assignment. Everyone needs to see this film!

I flat out cried when Anxiety had the "freeze" stare, and it looked like Anxiety "dissociated" for a moment...like it took a while for Anxiety to "come back" with Joy's help. As someone who has been through trauma, I felt Anxiety so hard right then, and I ended up in tears.

When anxiety started to panic my eyes couldn’t help but well up. I’ve never seen such an accurate symbolic imagery.

I love that none of the repressed memories have faded to grey.

A clever part I found funny is at the end when joy was taking care of anxiety having her drink tea, the tea was called anxie-TEA. That made me laugh.

As someone who's had anxiety my entire life for decades, I thought this movie had one of the best depictions of anxiety I've ever seen. Loved this movie so much.

I was so surprised they got the entire psychological portion of it so correct. It was amazing. I'm so used to writers just making up their own fantasy of how they wish things worked, but this time, they were so accurate, and literally everybody can relate to it. And it actually had a HEALTHY message at the end. It was truly amazing. They did such an awesome job with this movie.

The anxiety attack scene was so spot on. The racing around so fast and yet standing so still in the middle, and when Joy steps inside and tries to get her attention gently and Anxiety let's a tear drop 🥺 And then she says she wasn't trying to hurt her, she was trying to protect her...😭 oh man I had to hold it together!

A lot of these animators are old friends, colleagues, and classmates of mine, and I know how hard they work to do their homework and get the big things and the little things right. Pixar does a lot of consulting with professionals on things like this, and I'm glad to hear that it shows. They would be extremely proud to get a good grade from Kati Morton.

I had to explain to my kids why I was crying in the middle of a kids movie. Everything just hit home so hard. Everything I'd been dealing with the past few years perfectly laid out and all my emotions just can spilling out right there in the theater.

I read someones comment from somewhere else where they brought up how in the first movie at the end Joy told Sadness that "Riley needs you", where in the second movie Sadness told Joy "Riley wants you". I think it shows how as we mature and grow our emotions dont control us anymore, rather we control our emotions and make decisions based on our sense of self that we have developed. I also liked how when anxiety tried to force Riley to abandon her friends at first Riley actually refused to do it because her sense of self was "Im a good person" and "im a good friend" and Joy even stated that Riley wouldnt do that because thats not who she is. This movie was great I could talk about it for hours 😅

I have GAD and saw the movie recently, that panic attack scene with Anxiety stuck and tearing up to then say she was just trying to help Riley made my eyes well up because of how relatable it was. The sense of self saying "I'm not good enough" resonated with me a lot.

Is it still too soon to mention nostalgia? She was in my daughter's top 3 favorite characters from the movie! I love this series too for all the reasons Kati mentioned. I wanted to reach through the screen and give Riley a hug, both films made me cry. That line Joy said about growing up felt like a punch in the stomach. My 5 year old had so many questions about Inside Out, she experiences anxiety already. We talked about Riley grounding with her senses and practiced it. I think older generations were encouraged to ignore "bad" emotions, push through, and put on a joyful face. It's awesome that we are giving younger generations a better emotional understanding.

I loved when anxiety was told "you don't get to decide who she is "

A quiet thing that I loved is that Sadness and Embarrassment were getting their flirt on. Also the nostalgia granny, though I feel like mine is a grouchy punk rock woman who hates everything. Joy has the best of intentions, but she really is kind of a menace, sending those bad memories to the back of Riley’s mind set her up for so much trouble.

“Anywhere I go, you go.” 😳💔

As someone 43 years old who for the last 6 years suffered from severe anxiety after a trauma, this film absolutely nailed it. The end was hard to watch for me but it really is like this. I don’t often commend film studios but it was an amazing film they really nailed it!