Anxiety & stress Articles
Not sure what you want anymore? Don’t like your career, can’t set a goal? Or just have feelings of powerlessness and hopelessness and feeling lost in life? Why am I feeling lost in life? “My life has no meaning.” “I am useless, I’ll never get anywhere or do anything important.” “I don’t know who I...
Controlled by wild, intrusive thoughts that cause you distress on a daily basis? Secretly convinced you have Pure O? What is Pure O? Pure O is a term made popular by the internet to describe a type of OCD that consists only of obsessive thoughts, without any of the typical compulsive behaviours. But Pure O...
Is a fear of losing loved ones always on your mind? Are you worried about losing a parent, or a a partner dying? Is a fear of losing loved ones normal? Yes, it’s normal to not want the people we love to die. We enjoy their company, and know life would be very different without...
by Andrea Blundell Overanalyse everything, to the endless exasperation of your friends? And miss out on opportunity when you get ‘analysis paralysis’ and don’t make a decision? Why do we overanalyse? Some of us have stronger intellectual tendencies naturally. Or it can be a learned behaviour to be analytical, if we grew up with parents...
When it comes to a big life change, do you spend ages to take a decision, then sometimes sabotage and miss out on all? Or do even daily decisions confound you, such as picking a restaurant? And is your indecisiveness frustrating for those around you? Why is decision making so hard for me? Severe issues...
“Stop trying so hard and ‘go with the flow’”. It sounds good advice, doesn’t it? But does it work? Will simply accepting everything that comes your way really leave you happier? Accepting life change Acceptance can be powerful– if it’s about accepting things we truly have no power over. This often means accepting a life...
Worried all the time lately? When is it signs of anxiety, and when is it more than just anxiety and an anxiety disorder? Key facts about anxiety and mental health It’s important to understand that mental health is not an exact science. Mental health ‘disorders’ are not illnesses you can see under a microscope. They are...
The NHS estimates that 8% of us will have a phobia at some point in our lives. But what is a phobia, exactly? And when it comes to fears and phobias, what is the difference? What is a fear? Fear might start in the mind – we don’t like something. But our experience of fear...
by: Andrea Blundell Everyone around you is raving about how they have found their purpose and life is coming up roses. But the more you work at finding your purpose, the less clarity you have, the worse you feel. What is wrong with you? What is finding your purpose about? As humans we have long...
by Andrea Blundell What is information overload, exactly? It means we have so much data coming at us that our brain does its best imitation of blowing a fuse. We suddenly can’t think straight, and can even forget what we were doing. Sound familiar? Information overload in the digital age How much overload are we...
