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Anxiety can affect the way you think, feel, and cope with everyday life. In this section you’ll find a collection of articles exploring anxiety, its symptoms, causes, different anxiety conditions, and practical advice to help you better understand and manage it. If you’re looking for professional support with anxiety, use the links below to learn more about how counselling can help or book a free consultation.
The first Monday back has a particular quality to it. The alarm sounds at a time it has not sounded for weeks. The inbox has opinions. Somebody needs a PE kit. By half past nine you are already behind, and … Read more
You send a message. Then you read it back, and something in the wording seems wrong, and you check whether the tick has turned blue. Or the opposite happens, someone tells you they love you, and instead of warmth you … Read more
If your anxiety has changed, or arrived for the first time, and you are somewhere in your forties or early fifties, perimenopause may be the reason. Not the only possible reason, but a far more common one than most women … Read more
Grief and anxiety do not always arrive together, but they do more often than most people expect. The loss of someone significant can trigger fear, panic attacks, a new and persistent worry about death, or an intensification of anxiety that … Read more
Waking up shaking or trembling is an unsettling experience, and one that many people find difficult to explain. There are several possible reasons why this happens, and anxiety is one of them. Understanding what is behind the experience requires paying … Read more
Anxiety does not stay in the mind. For many people, the most alarming and confusing aspect of anxiety is what it does to the body — sensations that feel entirely physical, often frightening, and sometimes so unusual that the person … Read more
Trauma and anxiety are each, on their own, capable of creating significant difficulty in close relationships. Together, they create something more complex — a layered pattern of responses that can make intimacy feel simultaneously necessary and threatening, that can generate … Read more
You type a message, read it back four times, delete the last word, add an emoji, remove the emoji, and finally press send — then spend the next hour wondering whether it came across wrong. Or perhaps your phone buzzes … Read more
For many people with social anxiety, there is a cruel irony in the age of digital communication. The rise of messaging was supposed to make things easier — you can think before you reply, you do not have to perform … Read more
If messaging has become something you dread rather than something you simply do, you are not alone — and it does not have to stay this way. Texting anxiety is a genuine and well-recognised pattern of anxiety, and it responds … Read more