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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