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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.
Most of us use the word anxiety loosely, for nerves before a meeting, for the knot in your stomach before a difficult conversation. So when it starts to feel bigger than that, it can be hard to know what you … Read more
Someone asks what is wrong, and you have no words. There is nothing you can point to, no bad news, no clear problem, just a feeling that something is not right. Your chest is tight, your thoughts will not settle, … Read more
If you plan your day around where the nearest exit is, quietly avoid the friend who mentioned a stomach bug, and feel your chest tighten the moment someone says they feel unwell, you already know this fear from the inside. Read more
People who set out to heal from anxious attachment often find that the steps that seem most logical — trying harder to stop the anxious thoughts, pushing themselves to behave differently, reminding themselves that their fears are irrational — do … Read more
When anxiety is affecting your ability to work, get through the day, or simply function the way you would like to, a very practical question can start to surface: is anxiety a disability? Read more
There is a version of thinking about death that is part of being human — a background awareness of mortality that most people carry without it interfering significantly with their lives. And then there is death anxiety: the kind where … Read more
Liking someone should feel exciting. And sometimes it does — for about thirty seconds before the anxiety moves in and turns it into something else entirely. The replaying of conversations to check whether you said something wrong. The hyper-awareness of … Read more
If you have recognised an anxious attachment style in yourself, the natural next question is usually the same: why do I have this? The honest answer is that anxious attachment almost always begins before you had any conscious awareness of … Read more
Yes. Anxious attachment can change. This matters enough to say plainly at the start, because many people who identify with an anxious attachment style carry an unexamined assumption that it is simply how they are — a fixed aspect of … Read more
One of the most persistent questions for people who recognise anxious attachment in themselves is whether their relationships can ever feel truly balanced — whether it is possible, given how their attachment system works, to be in a relationship where … Read more