Owen O'Kane

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174 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 13 Jul

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I'd encourage you to do the opposite.

I want you to go out today.

I want you to go towards the discomfort.

And I want you to do the opposite of what your anxiety is telling you to do.

When an anxious thought comes along, they are the most tantalizing thoughts ever.

You know, I joked about it once and I said, it's kind of almost like porn for the brain.

because anxiety thoughts, they're quite appealing in some way because we latch onto them and we think, God, I wonder, is that true?

And then we start to question the thought.

And of course, the brain will then give more information.

And then suddenly it's spiraled into something

you know, very, very different.

So it's teaching people that these thoughts that you have, we have two types of thoughts.

You've got functional thinking, which is the everyday stuff.

What am I having for dinner?

You know, I'm having a party tomorrow.

What do I need to plan for that?

That's very normal, functional, everyday thinking.

Whereas our anxious thoughts are very, very personal and we get caught up in them.

We believe them to be true.

They often exaggerate.

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