By Wayne Senior, Anxiety Support Chat moderator Anxiety Support Chat will be open on Monday evenings between 8:00-9:00 to support you through the summer. If you’re a teacher or a university student, you may be worried about how you’ll manage your anxiety on days when you are less active than during term-time. Our community of No […]
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By Brian Robinson, helpline volunteer. Many of us see anxiety as this terrible enemy or bully who we have to stand up against and fight. Who would blame us for that? However, the problem with this view of things is we risk ending up at war with ourselves. Fight or flight is in fact a
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By Craig, No Panic volunteer This is the third in our series looking at the importance of psychoeducation in any anxiety recovery journey. We’ve already had a look at the benefits of understanding more about the anxiety state and the different sources available to help you do that. In this blog, we want to look
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By Craig, No Panic volunteer In our recent blog on psychoeducation, we spoke about the value of understanding what is happening biologically when you are anxious. Doing so can help you understand that whilst symptoms are real and scary, they can also be easily explained and cannot truly harm you. Once you’ve decided that you
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By Craig, No Panic Volunteer In 2005, I had my first experience of problematic anxiety. I remember that feeling of adrenalin rushing through my body, a flush of heat over my face with beads of sweat forming on my forehead as thoughts started to tell me that something was terribly wrong… I needed to get
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By Brian Robinson, No Panic volunteer The best way to break the anxiety cycle is not to see it as an unbreakable cycle in the first place. At its heart, anxiety is a disorder caused by tension. When tension levels are raised to a certain critical point, fight or flight is automatically triggered. See yourself
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This is the final part of a three-part series on the No Panic breathing exercise. In this series, we are focusing on when to do the breathing exercise. It’s all about the timing. Anxiety can cause people to lose sleep night after night. All that sleep deprivation mounts up, so they are too tired to
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If the thought of going out is a trigger for your anxiety, you can use the breathing exercise to prevent anxiety either stopping you from going out, or punishing you for going out.
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This is the first part of a three-part series on the No Panic breathing exercise. This article is about using the breathing exercise, when you’re struggling to eat your meals.
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Tracey is very kindly running in the Birmingham half marathon on 1st May with the aim of raising £500 for No Panic. We are extremely grateful to Tracey for choosing No Panic to run for. This is Tracey’s story: “I became ill in 2019 with very severe panic attacks related to a very stressful job
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