Love and Relationship Expert

Being constantly anxious certainly takes the fun out of life. You really want to get out and enjoy yourself but that voice in your head is stopping you. It's putting all sorts of obstacles in your way and making you indecisive. You get your coat on to go to the shops and you find yourself making excuses as to why you should stay at home. It's crazy! You really want to go out but your brain is giving you all sorts of negative reasons not to.

• Are you stressed and anxious?
• Are you experiencing panic attacks?
• Do you feel depressed?

Do not despair, help is hand. Pressure gets to us all to a greater or lesser extent and if it is unremitting it can easily turn into stress. Anxiety, panic attacks and depression are all common responses to stress but with a little help it is possible to negate these feelings.

Have you:

• Ever been in a room full of people and felt that you must just get out of the room?
• Been in the supermarket and felt like you were going to faint?
• Got ready to go on a date and found that you could not leave the bathroom?
• Been in a restaurant and felt like you were suffocating?

Is Worry Caused by Stress or Stress Caused by Worry?

I asked my colleagues what they thought about this question and I got some very interesting answers!

What really stuck in my mind was the following quotation ''worry never solves the problems of tomorrow, but robs today of its joy'' What a profound statement this is but try as we may it is not necessarily easy just to put our worries aside. It is possible to be a compulsive worrier both about the future or even the past and such worry does indeed rob us of the joy for the here and now.

FACT: Around 350 million people globally are already affected by depression and the World Health Organisation estimate it will be the single biggest burden of disease in the world by 2030.

Today, the World Federation for Mental Health is promoting the message that: