Anxiety in some situations is normal as it triggers your flight or fight response to keep you safe from danger. This is normal and soon passes. But anxiety can be a problem when you become overly worried about things that may or may not ever happen. When your anxiety is out of proportion to the […]
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What was the biggest trigger of your mental health issues (anxiety, depression, anger or something else)? Anxiety and fear. What issues in your life to you feel most contributed towards your emotional wellbeing? Any form of stress, work and family. pretty much everything I was just living in constant anxiety. Which area of your life
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, or commonly referred to as OCD, is a mental health illness which involves repetitive and disturbing thoughts, images, or urges/obsessions that intrude a person’s mind. These unwanted thoughts or obsessions cause a great deal of stress, anxiety and discomfort, which the person affected then tries to reduce by means of adopting repetitive
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Panic disorder is characterised by recurrent panic attacks, in addition to feelings of apprehensiveness with regards to the occurrence of future panic attacks. People who suffer from panic attacks normally experience sudden and intense feelings of fear, terror or apprehension, without the presence of actual danger. Panic disorder is a type of anxiety disorder, and
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When someone constantly has a feeling of fear or nervousness and this feeling becomes excessive, difficult to control and interferes with daily life, that person may be suffering from an anxiety disorder. Anxiety disorders affect several million adults in the U.S, making it the most common mental health condition. Anxiety is highly treatable, yet only
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The way you feel in the first few weeks after having your baby may be influenced by the baby blues, which are experienced to some degree by the majority of new mums. The baby blues often occur in the first week or so after birth, where you can feel overwhelmed by your emotions. There is
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It can be very difficult to manage chronic stress and/or anxiety (chronic worry/concern) on a day-to-day basis, let alone at Christmas. Christmas can be a busy, challenging, stressful and exhausting time, even for those who are not battling with a mental health illness. Christmas can elevate feelings of stress and anxiety for a wide variety
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Obsessive compulsive disorder, commonly referred to as ‘OCD’, refers to repetitive, intrusive and unwanted fears and thoughts (obsessions), as well as repetitive mental or physical actions and routines (compulsions) in an attempt to relieve the relevant thoughts and anxiety. When suffering from OCD, the need to repeat certain actions over and over (in order to
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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is referred to as intense anxiety, stress and fear following experiencing or witnessing a traumatic (e.g. extremely violent and/or life-threatening) event. In some cases, the trauma may have occurred recently, and in other instances, it may have occurred long ago. Depending on the situation, the trauma may have been experienced directly
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Where a person is experiencing intense low mood or sadness, they are said to be suffering from a common mental health illness referred to as depression. In a number of cases, depression is also coupled with anxiety, which is characterised by chronic worry, apprehensiveness and unease. Each of these mental health illnesses both on their
