Owen O'Kane: Are we addicted to anxiety?

Owning It: The Anxiety Podcast

Caroline Foran

Overwhelm, Education, Health & Fitness, Panic Attack, Caroline Foran, Stress, Anxiety

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Join me and world renowned expert Owen O'Kane for what I would describe as a lifechanging episode, one that will transform the way you think about anxiety and feel about it too. We talk about anxiety as an addiction - why that makes sense and what we can do to move ourselves out of an anxiety cycle.

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to Owning It. If you would like to support the series, the best thing you can do is just tell a friend or better yet share it on social media.
0:08.0	If you really, really want to support, you can subscribe to me on Substack where I write a weekly column.
0:13.0	Listeners of the pod get a 20% discount forever at carolineforin.substack.com.
0:18.7	Thank you.
0:20.1	Hello, dear listener and welcome back to Owning It the Anxiety podcast with me, Caroline Foran.substack.com. Thank you. Hello, dear listener and welcome back to owning it the
0:22.6	anxiety podcast with me, Caroline Forin. This week I am joined by bestselling anxiety expert and author
0:28.4	Own Okane for what I honestly think is one of the best episodes I've ever recorded. And I don't
0:34.4	think I say that too often. We were just on exactly the same wavelength
0:38.6	and chatting with Owen was so validating and reassuring and most importantly, it just simplifies
0:44.0	anxiety down to exactly what I believe you need to know. His latest book, Addicted to Anxiety,
0:49.6	is a massively helpful understanding of the cycles of anxiety that we can get caught in and how to
0:54.8	gently move ourselves out of it. Oh, I just wish I could rewind and allow my 25 year old self to hear
1:00.8	this episode. I hope it makes a difference for you. Well, Owen O'Kane, thank you so much for joining
1:07.3	me on Owning at the Anxiety podcast. I'm so excited to have this chat.
1:14.7	Thank you for having me. It's great actually when you talk to your host from Ireland because you say my name properly. The surname, the Okain bit throws everyone. I get Okane, Okone, all sorts of
1:22.0	stuff. So it's funny when I speak to anyone back home, they get the name straight away and they say O'1 properly as well. So I get all sorts of O' Wayne and all of this. So you said my name properly.
1:30.7	So there we go. We're off to a good start.
1:34.4	Congratulations on your latest book, Addict to Anxiety. It's fair to say you are definitely qualified
1:40.3	to make that statement. I think you will understand this that when I, when my anxiety
1:47.2	was really bad and I was really suffering and it was really chronic and I was really struggling,
1:51.5	I would have been so annoyed if someone said you're addicted to anxiety or a habit. It's a bold claim
1:59.5	to make, but I think it's one that had to be made,
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