Remember January? It seems an age since everyone was planning their new year’s resolutions. Imagine if we’d known then what we know now. That yearly gym subscription might have been swapped out for a Netflix or Zoom subscription. For most of us in the UK, March 23rd saw our world turned upside down. Whether you were a key worker returning to a strange and scary new workplace or one of the millions who were told to stay at home, life as we knew it changed overnight.
One of the best ways to help a friend with anxiety would be to understand and recognise the condition and the severity in which it can affect a person’s life.
There’s a lot of useful information in the media recently about how diet can impact our physical health, hardly a week goes by without another study being published. In comparison, however, there have been fewer articles highlighting the benefits of good nutrition on mental health.
Anxiety can be a mixture of feelings such as apprehension, fear, agitation, nervousness, tension, stress, and foreboding. Everyone experiences anxiety at some time in their lives, especially when faced with new or unknown experiences such as exams, new job/school, being ill, meeting new people.
Self-compassion is the ability to notice our own suffering, to be kind to ourselves in response to this, and acknowledge that as a member of the human race we are not perfect.
Feeling anxious or on high alert is a normal reaction to difficult situations, however for people that are more sensitive to their surroundings and experiences, this can become almost a permanent way of being.
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