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Anxiety is an emotion which is accompanied by feelings of fear, panic, nervousness and overwhelm, and it causes physical changes in our bodies such as increased heart-rate and shortness of breath. It is often easier to recognise our emotions and feelings before we are able to recognise our own thoughts. Learn how to recognise which emotion you are feeling here

Anxiety can cause brain fog due to the hormones released in our brain when we feel anxious.

Brain fog is that feeling where you don’t mentally feel yourself. Just like anxiety, the feelings can come and go in waves, can occur infrequently or persistently, and can happen at any age. It can range in intensity from slight to moderate to severe at times.

It can be hard to know how to start a conversation about mental health. However, we all have mental health, just like we all have physical health. You don’t need to be an anxiety expert to help someone who is struggling.  Letting them know you care and are there for them can make a huge difference to their wellbeing. 

Read on for more top tips on how to start a conversation.

Separation anxiety is a form of anxiety that mostly impacts babies and young children but can also show up in teens and adults. Separation anxiety can cause children to become clingy, nervous or fearful when a parent or loved one leaves them, or are out of sight.

All children and teens feel some anxiety at some point.

Although feeling anxious from time to time is completely normal, it can often cause chest pains. These chest pains can make us feel even more anxious as they can mistakenly be associated with other conditions such as heart attacks.

Learning how anxiety can cause chest pains can be the first step in knowing how to treat them.

Are you looking to overcome procrastination? Are you stuck in a rut right now? Perhaps something needs to get done but you keep putting it off? Maybe you are distracted by life and even though you have a task or goal that is important, you just don’t know how to start? Possibly you feel overwhelmed at the thought .....

Notice this article is about overcoming anxiety and not eliminating anxiety entirely. The reason for that is anxiety is completely normal and keeps us safe. It is our relationship with anxiety that is often the problem, when we are triggered by events in our past or our future, and often we are unable to understand why this happens.

Trying to be the best we can be in certain areas of our life can be totally ok, but it is not healthy when perfectionism dominates our lives and we feel overwhelmed or paralysed. Perfectionism causes us to stay stuck in the idea that we cannot make mistakes, which can result in us saying “No” to new opportunities.