How To Hack Your Anxiety. Stop Doing These 3 Things, They Are Making It Worse! | Owen O'Kane

Owen O'Kane is a leading psychotherapist and Sunday Times best selling author. Formerly the NHS lead in mental health, he continues to use his advanced knowledge to help YOU tackle your anxiety.

In this conversation, Owen and Alex discuss topics such as, what shifts us from an anxious state into an anxiety attack, how to stabilise our stress and anxiety, what 3 things in our everyday life can make our anxiety worse, how to truly understand what happiness means to you...

...and SO much more.

Chapters:

00:00 Trailer
01:07 Dedication
01:14 What is the worst side of anxiety that people experience?
02:40 ADHD anxiety VS neurotypical anxiety
05:41 The symptoms of anxiety from mild to severe
12:15 Is anxiety an evolutionary hangover
14:03 What shifts us from an anxious state into an anxiety attack?
22:36 Tiimo advert
24:42 The difference between rationale anxiety and irrational anxiety
28:17 Common ways to manage anxiety that are actually unhelpful
36:02 How to stabilise our stress and anxiety
37:49 Surefire techniques to calm anxiety
45:39 What does the term "catastrophizing" mean
53:45 Can we get addicted to anxiety and why would that be
01:03:09 How does anxiety link to depression
01:05:41 What 3 things in our everyday life can make our anxiety worse?
01:07:09 Things we do on a day-to-day basis that might be making us anxious and we don't even realise
01:09:09 How to create internal peace
01:13:05 How to truly understand what happiness means to you
01:18:14 Washing machine of woes
01:22:16 Owen’s ADHD Item

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Producer: Timon Woodward

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