OWNING IT: Johann Hari on why we're anxious

Owning It: The Anxiety Podcast

Caroline Foran

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

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Johann Hari is a really interesting if somewhat controversial character. He is a prolific journalist, an NYTimes bestselling author and his Ted Talks on the reasons why we might be anxious/depressed has been viewed a staggering number of times. He too also struggled significantly with anxiety and depression. He has some really hard-to-argue-with insights on the various reasons why we collectively struggle so much: we have a series of unmet needs, or as his book title suggests, we are suffering from various lost connections. Here he chats to me about some of the key reasons why we struggle (according to him and the research he has done around the world chatting with experts) as well as what we can do about it: social prescription, questioning our junk values and more. A very interesting guy, did I say that already?

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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. If you really, really want to support, you can subscribe to me on Substack where I write a weekly column. Listeners of the pod get a 20% discount forever at carolinephorren.substack.com. Thank you.
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1:03.5	your host, Caroline Forn.
1:05.0	For this episode, I am thrilled to have gotten time with Mr. Johann Harry.
1:09.3	He is such a prolific journalist, broadcaster,
1:13.2	Ted talker, author. His book Lost Connections, which is what we talk about here, has been a New York
1:18.3	Times bestseller. He's in the middle of writing his third and fourth book, and he has taken time
1:22.8	out to chat to me about, I guess, anxiety at a much wider society level and the seven non-biological reasons
1:31.2	that we're all struggling so much with depression and anxiety, which he puts together as two
1:35.9	things that often go hand in hand. So if you're someone who has struggled with depression,
1:40.3	this will be a particularly relevant episode for you. It's very eye-opening and really makes you
1:45.1	think about a lot of the cultural systems and conventions within which we live that are probably
1:53.9	fueling our anxiety and making us believe that so much of the problem is our fault as opposed to us living in a world where we just have
2:05.2	psychological needs and emotional needs that are unmet for the most part. So Johan explains it
2:11.3	far more articulately than I ever could. So I hope you enjoy it. His book lost connections is
2:17.1	widely available now. He references
2:18.6	at the end, his website, all his social media, so do follow him there. And thank you so much for
2:23.5	tuning in. As always, I appreciate the feedback and the reviews and the nice, obviously the nice
2:30.0	comments. I don't really want any nasty comments. And yeah, so enjoy and thank you.
2:43.1	Johan Harry, thank you so much for taking the time to chat to me for owning it the
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