ANXIETY AND OVERWHELM
Affecting all ages, anxiety is a term that covers an enormous range of feelings, from mild worry and unease to all-consuming terrors and panic attacks.
However anxiety affects your life it is incredibly real and something we can help with. Stemming from our primal fight or flight mechanism, anxiety is usually in response to specific triggers.
What is important to understand is that constant, life-impacting anxiety isn't something you should ignore or try and live with. Anxiety is complex but can be worked through with varying degrees of management success.
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Overwhelm is more specific and identifies specific times of our lives when we need to recognise the feeling of overwhelm. Together we can work out where it stems from, if it's linked with other mental illness symptoms and how it can be managed for a more comfortable life.
recommended reading
Overcoming Anxiety
by Kirk Teachout
Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? by Julia Smith
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How to Stop Overthinking
by Chase Hill and Scott Sharp
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How to Understand and Deal with Anxiety
by Rasha Barrage
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The Age of Overwhelm
by Laura Van Dernoot Lipsky
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The Highly Sensitive Young Adult
by Jordan T Beckett
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It's About You Too
by Tracy Whitmore