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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.
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
The signs of an anxious attachment style are rarely obvious from the inside. From the outside, they might look like neediness, jealousy or insecurity. From the inside, they feel like love — a love that is a little too alert, … Read more
Anxiety disorders are among the most common mental health conditions in the UK, and among the most misunderstood. People with anxiety disorders regularly describe feeling dismissed: told they just need to calm down, to stop worrying, to put things in … Read more
Jealousy is one of the most common presenting themes in couples counselling, and one of the most misunderstood. It is routinely treated as a character problem — a sign of insecurity, immaturity, or a controlling personality — when its roots … Read more