Last week I touched on why the situation with coronavirus is causing anxiety in ways you may never have imagined, and I promised to share some top tips for dealing with anxious feelings. There is no one size fits all, but adding any or all of these small steps into your life could amount to big change. 1. Turn off the news, throw away newspapers and delete your news apps - if something major happens, you will hear about it one way or another. The media’s constant st

I was chatting with a fellow therapist friend this week. He was maligning the fact that he had been thrown out of a Facebook group for people suffering from anxiety for daring to - shock horror - offer advice on dealing with anxiety. He was frustrated, and rightly so. He cared, and he wanted to help. I reminded him that, much as we would like to, we cannot help everyone. People have to REALLY want to help themselves - they have to be ‘at threshold’. In other words - they have

I was chatting with a fellow therapist friend this week. He was maligning the fact that he had been thrown out of a Facebook group for people suffering from anxiety for daring to - shock horror - offer advice on dealing with anxiety. He was frustrated, and rightly so. He cared, and he wanted to help. I reminded him that, much as we would like to, we cannot help everyone. People have to REALLY want to help themselves - they have to be ‘at threshold’. In other words - they have