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Owen O'Kane
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A GROUNDBREAKING WAY TO OVERCOME YOUR ANXIETY, FROM BESTSELLING AUTHOR OWEN O’KANE.
Feeling anxious is part of being human; sometimes it can even be necessary or useful. But what about when anxiety takes over? When you feel like it’s too often dictating your life?
Have you ever considered that you might be addicted to anxiety?
In this groundbreaking book, bestselling author and psychotherapist Owen O’Kane explores how we all unwittingly build habits around our anxiety. This, he argues, is how we become addicted – the behaviours and thought patterns that help us feel safe in the short term ultimately serve to perpetuate it.
Put simply, we get hooked.
The answer? Break the cycle.
How?
- Recognize: You must understand your anxiety and identify your triggers before you can start to unpick it.
- Tackle: Discover vital techniques for breaking the underlying habits and patterns.
- Move forward: Learn strategies for navigating setbacks or relapses on the road ahead.
Addicted to Anxiety will help you understand your anxiety from the perspective of addiction, identifying your triggers and learning how to break your habits so you can actively replace them with new, more productive behaviours for a calmer, happier life.
‘Owen helps us look at our lives and happiness in a clear and practical way’
Fearne Cotton
‘Owen is an expert at showing, in his brilliantly down-to-earth way, how we can find happiness in the real world’ Rob Rinder, aka Judge Rinder
‘Owen is bringing much needed therapy to all of us. He brings down the stigma attached to being vulnerable and is making talking about mental health approachable for everyone’ Dr Rupy Aujla, MBBS, BSc, MRCGP The Doctor’s Kitchen
Expertise, clarity and humility par excellence.
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another great read from Owen O'Kane
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One of the best books on Anxiety
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Alternative way of thinking
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The main issue I have with this book is the premise that anxiety is an "addiction". I think it's a rather crafty way of re-packaging an age-old idea, which is that the compulsions and safety behaviours that many people with anxiety perform are "addictive" because they provide relief, and therefore this in itself sets up a cycle of "addiction", the way that one would use alcohol or tobacco to calm our nerves. We are somehow maintaining our anxiety because we secretly find benefit from it ie. it keeps us "safe".
Well, addiction denotes there's a sense of pleasure, or a high, in these self-soothing behaviours when, as anyone with anxiety will tell you, that is not quite the right word because it's a different feeling. It's more a sense of relief, a way of heading away from danger. I doubt we get the same shot of dopamine that comes from performing a truly addictive behaviour. So, yes, there are certain life experiences that do set us up for anxiety in life and certain behaviours that can propagate it that are so deep-rooted as to be hard to challenge on a daily basis. But anxiety as "addiction"? Honestly, I have never felt that.
Addicted to turning this off
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