What Jobs Does Anxiety End Up Doing?
There are a set of things people often say when anxiety has become part of the system they use to manage life. Sometimes there’s truth in these statements, but the difficulty is that anxiety rarely provides these services without a cost.
The assessment question that upset me the most. When you start therapy with a new therapist, it’s good practice to complete a statistically reliable questionnaire that indicates how well you’re functioning and to expose particular areas of life that might need some attention. Why This One Mental Health Question Was
Verbalising our thoughts helps us put them in order. By explaining it to someone else, we, on some level, are explaining it to ourselves. Emotions can be labelled, experienced and sorted. This allows the brain’s alarm system, the amygdala, to stand down and reduce the amount of time we spend
No-one likes rejection. We’ve all experienced it, we all dread it, and that’s only natural. Fear of rejection only turns into a problem when you notice it impacting your everyday life, including work and relationships. When fear of being rejected gets out of hand, you might start isolating yourself, avoiding
‘I’m wracked with anxiety now, but I used to be so sure of everything before ****** died’ Clients often tell me that the way they feel about themselves and the world has changed after a bereavement or a loss. The turmoil of the early stages may settle eventually, but these
