You’ve been really busy at work lately, you’ve picked up extra responsibilities and there have been a fair few changes, more moving parts than usual, and your mind is finding it difficult to switch off when you leave the office. You’re finding that this is affecting your sleep, that you’re waking in the night and […]
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It is a bit after eleven and tomorrow there is a meeting, or a conversation you have been putting off, or a decision that has to be made by Friday. You are not asleep. You are running it on a loop in your mind, every version of how it might go, each one ending somewhere
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You sent the email at four in the afternoon, but by nine that evening it is still with you. You have read it back twice, maybe three times, hunting for the word that landed wrong. You are picturing the person opening it in the morning and deciding what they make of you. Part of you
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You have probably tried to reason your way calm. You have talked yourself through it, weighed the evidence, told yourself it will be fine, and noticed the worry barely flinched. That is not a personal failing. It is a clue about how anxiety actually works, and why the usual advice to think positive or just
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Maybe you cannot switch off, your mind races at night and your shoulders seem to live somewhere up around your ears, and even on a quiet evening your body stays braced for something that never quite arrives. Or maybe it is the opposite, and you feel flat, heavy, and oddly far away, going through the
If you live with anxiety, self-doubt, or that nagging sense that you are about to be found out, you will know the sense of certainty that comes with it. The thought does not arrive as a maybe, it arrives as a verdict, a fact or reality that is strangely convincing, and your whole body seems
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