Read our posts about Anxiety

25Jul

How Sports Protect Girls' Self Esteem

Terri Apter

anxiety, depression, exercise, women

Body

Dr Terri Apter explains how engaging in sports can improve the body image and overall confidence of teenage girls and help to reduce depression.
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14Jul

How Meditation Cured Dan Harris's Panic Attacks

Louise Chunn

anxiety, meditation, mindfulness, TV

Mind

US journalist Dan Harris’s on-screen meltdown radically altered his life. Before his nationally broadcast panic attack on ABC news, Harris was your average over-worked, professionally anxious reporter. He’d joined the network at the extremely young age of 21, and was  thrown into the deep end when he was sent to Afghanistan to cover the Taliban. After a long stint dodging bullets in Afghanistan and then Pakistan, he returned home to a studio-bound job  with a severe case of undiagnosed post-traumatic stress disorder. He dealt with this by dosing himself up on...
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25Jun

Why is There So Much Anxiety?

Sue Cowan-Jenssen

anxiety, counselling, stress, therapy

Therapists

Modern life seems to feature more anxiety as people struggle with fear of exclusion, reports therapist Sue Cowan-Jenssen In my work as a therapist I have come to understand that, often, underlying our deepest anxieties are...
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05Jun

The Beautiful Game and Depression

Lorne St

anxiety, depression, men, society, suicide

Soul

Footballer Gary Speed, former captain-turned-manager of the Welsh national team, had movie star looks, a million pound mansion, a beautiful young wife and two sports-obsessed sons. He seemed to have the world at his feet. But three years ago he took his own life after an embittered battle with depression. With the World Cup in Brazil only days away it is easy to cloak our footballers with the super human strength of gladiators in Ancient Rome. However when the arena clears and the applause dies away, cases like Speed’s are sadly far from rare. A study carried out by...
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16Apr

Can Celebrities De-Stigmatise Mental Illness?

Natasha Hughes

anxiety, mental health, psychotherapy, therapy, wellbeing

Mind

When celebrities like Lena Dunham talk about mental illness, does it help de-stigmatise the area?
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21Mar

Talking to a Friend Isn't the Same as Therapy

Welldoing

anxiety, counselling, depression, therapy

Mind

Guardian journalist Zoe Williams and her therapist friend Julia Bueno discuss how therapy works and what it can mean to people
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11Mar

Self-Soothing: Coping with Stress

Gerrilyn Smith

anxiety, counselling, emotions, stress, therapy

Soul

How to use breath to help regulate your emotions, and soothe your self
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17Feb

The Ground Beneath My Feet: a Fear of the Unknown

Owen Stone

anxiety, phobias, psychology

Mind

I was 13 when I had my first panic attack, though I didn’t know what it was then. I was at a café in Biarritz when I got a chicken bone lodged in my throat. My entire body went white hot; I became convinced I was going to die. The blood drained to my feet, every bit of me screamed to get outside, so I walked around the block eating yoghurt until the fear drained away. When we got back to New Zealand, the same white heat would flow through my body again whenever we would go to a café or restaurant. I had to give myself ‘outs.’ Sit facing the door. Don’t order food....
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22Jan

What is Trauma?

Nicole Addis

anxiety, bereavement, depression, divorce, redundancy, stress, therapy, trauma

Therapists

Trauma covers such areas as divorce, bereavement, redundancy, ill health - all the shocks and tribulations that can shake one's ordinary life to the core
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15Jan

What is EMDR Therapy?

Gillian Levy

anxiety, depression, emdr, PTSD, trauma, typesoftherapy

Therapists

EMDR is a relatively new kind of psychotherapy. Gillian Levy explains how EMDR can be used to treat trauma, with sometimes amazing results
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