When I was 17-years-old, social media meant jumping on Myspace.com to fiddle with your animated profile background and music that would play when someone landed on your page (yeah, anyone else remember that?) Occasionally you’d upload a photo and chat to a friend by posting a bulky-looking comment under a profile image. Basically, it was […]
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When I first read about achieving a flow state of mind I was very intrigued. I found out about flow state on a psychology blog (for which the name escapes me) and I began doing more research. The idea of flow state interested me because it perfectly described how I felt when I was writing
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I’ve been colouring and drawing since I was a child. Even as a little kid, I knew there was something special about creative expression through drawing and colouring. However, there’s always been something uniquely appealing of just colouring in. In 2016, the world experienced a massive in the popularity of adult colouring. Whilst I saw
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I wrote a post a while ago that outlined my best metaphors for anxiety in the hope that they would help someone to describe what real anxiety feels like. Now I want to write a post detailing my best metaphors for social anxiety because it’s something that affects many people, teens or otherwise. Social anxiety
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Even in this day and age, there are plenty of misconceptions about anxiety disorders. Growing up with generalised anxiety myself, I’ve come across some of these misconceptions myself. Even with all the talk now surrounding mental health subjects, many people still don’t really understand anxiety disorders and it’s usually because they’ve never had an anxiety
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When I first went to my doctor at the tender age of seventeen, I was in good spirits because I was finally dealing with how I felt at the time. I’d been anxious since I was little and decided enough was enough. My mother joined me as we entered the doctors office and he began
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If you’ve ever experienced intense anxiety before then you’ll probably be no stranger to weird anxiety symptoms. You might not even realise at the time that the weird symptoms you’re feeling are to do with anxiety. I wanted to write this post to lay out some of the weird anxiety symptoms that I’ve experienced in
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Hair loss is something that affects most men at some stage in their life and being able to accept hair loss is one of the only things that can help to set you free from the emotional stress of it all. Worrying about hair loss has been something that I’ve been preoccupied with for the
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If you want to know how to stop worrying about something then you’ve come to the right place. This blog was created to help me work through my own anxiety and figure out ways to better my mental health and perspective. It’s gone on since I started it to delve into every aspect of mental
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For many weeks now I have been worrying about a certain thing. It was finance related and it left me feeling crippled with anxiety and fear. Quite commonly, money is something that we all worry about the most, along with health and relationships. Even after all these years of learning to manage anxiety, this occasion
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