The fear of falling apart again + anxiety over world news
Owning It: The Anxiety Podcast
Caroline Foran
4.4 • 654 Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2023
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Join me on Substack here where I write about anxiety, parenting and careers.
For this solo episode I am talking through how I overcame my latest anxiety wobble - something I hadn't felt to that extent in so long. It really unnerved me and stuck around for a few days. For me, a fear I will probably forever grapple with is the fear of losing my mind. It comes now and then as a scar from the trauma and how I react to it is really important. I also cover in this episode the very significant 'vulnerability factor' that is our consumption currently of non stop tragic news coming from the Israel/Palestine conflict and how that can activate our stress response within our own daily lives. I hope you find this helpful, as always thank you for listening.
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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. |
| 0:13.0 | Listeners of the pod get a 20% discount forever at carolineforen.com. |
| 0:18.7 | Thank you. |
| 0:19.9 | Hello, dear listener. Welcome to owning it the anxiety podcast |
| 0:23.2 | with me, Caroline Forin. This week is a solo episode, just me, and I thought that I would talk |
| 0:29.7 | about my recent experience of anxiety, which, to be honest, kind of knocked me for six, as well as |
| 0:36.0 | what we're probably all feeling right now and that's deep |
| 0:39.1 | anxiety about the state of the world. I'm going to keep politics or opinions out of this episode |
| 0:47.0 | and just focus on the impact that all of the suffering we're seeing right now can have on each |
| 0:52.5 | and every one of us, even though we might |
| 0:54.8 | not feel directly connected to it or we might feel completely removed geographically from |
| 0:59.5 | it. I want to highlight the vulnerability factors we experience both personally and collectively |
| 1:04.3 | that we might not always remember are at play when we start to feel anxious and we're not quite |
| 1:08.5 | sure why. Having awareness of these vulnerability factors, |
| 1:12.0 | whether it's being under the weather or sleep deprived or absorbing all of that news, all that time, |
| 1:17.9 | it allows you to course correct and it gives you a chance to go a little bit easier on yourself |
| 1:22.0 | as you understand that maybe how you're feeling actually does make sense. First of all, let me tell you a little bit |
| 1:28.5 | about where I've been at personally before we get on to the bigger and arguably more important |
| 1:33.2 | global issues at hand. Last week, I got a bit of a fright. I started to feel hints of that |
| 1:40.2 | same anxiety that had really taken hold of me almost 10 years ago. I then, of course, |
| 1:46.5 | panicked that maybe I was about to be plunged back into it merely for having had the thought. |
| 1:51.9 | It feels kind of silly to say it now, but when I tease it apart, I think for me, one of my biggest |
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