What to do when the news gives you anxiety
Owning It: The Anxiety Podcast
Caroline Foran
4.4 • 654 Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Word of warning: My guest's audio wasn't ideal for this episode, there was very little I could do about the feedback issue on Dr Clare's side of the audio, so I hope you can forgive this. Hopefully next time I record with Clare we can be in person in studio.
For this episode of Owning It: The Anxiety Podcast, clinical psychologist Dr Clare Kambamettu joins me to discuss the impact that consuming news around the clock can have on our minds and bodies. Maybe that's social media, maybe that's news on your TV, and it's especially relevant now with Covid. We are facing a very legitimate threat with Covid and keeping tabs of all of the latest news surrounding the virus has become a coping mechanism for many of us. We think it benefits us but if you're aware of it, it might be making you feel more anxious. So what can we do about it? How do we stay informed without overwhelming our threat system?
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| 1:24.6 | Hello, dear listener, and welcome to season seven, the first episode of season seven of owning it the anxiety podcast, with me, your host and author, Caroline Forin. |
| 1:35.5 | For this episode, I am joined by Dr. Claire Kambamettu, who has been on the series a few times with me. |
| 1:42.2 | She is a clinical psychologist. She is one of my absolute go-to experts for distilling a lot of what can be overwhelming |
| 1:50.6 | jargon into something that we can all very easily digest. |
| 1:53.9 | She's brilliant. |
| 1:54.6 | She just articulates everything so well. |
| 1:56.7 | And for this episode, we are talking about the anxiety that we might experience as a result of consuming pretty much around the clock news, social media, whether it's news on your TV or on your phone or just the social media apps that you might use and the impact that this is having on our mind, on our anxiety, which we might not be aware of. |
| 2:16.0 | We might not even think that consuming the news is contributing to anxiety, but it very well |
| 2:20.3 | could be. |
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