Anxiety - what helps?
Anxiety is a normal human emotion and it is essential for keeping us safe. Anxiety helps us to be cautious when there may be danger, something important or something unknown. This is appropriate and essential. We check to see if it's safe to cross the road and when it is clear, we do. We check to see if the food is cooked properly and when we have checked we eat it. We check that we have set the alarm clock for the morning and then we can go to sleep. This is anxiety doing it's job properly. However, sometimes anxiety ramps up, it gets a little over zealous, a little "jobs-worthy" if you like and decides it is not enough to check once, "What if there is another car coming that you didn't see?" it whispers in your ear, "What if that chicken only looks cooked?" it murmurs under it's breath, "What if the battery runs out on your clock, what if it breaks in the night, shouldn't you check again?" it whines repeatedly. So wh