Small Steps Counselling Service Counselling For Anxiety
Let me begin by telling you a story – some time ago, a newly married lady suddenly found herself trapped with a head that wouldn’t listen to reason. In spite of her 20+ years, she felt like a lost 5 year old girl most of the time and needed a lot of reassurance.
Over a period of 4 months, she displayed behaviours without thought for anyone else – selfishness, paranoia, making demands, refusing to do simple everyday tasks and often thinking very irrationally – although the real her shone through occasionally, mostly when she felt very safe.
It took 5 months of hard work to make the change she wanted to. The lady was of course me – I had an illness …. and the illness was anxiety.
So, what is anxiety? Anxiety is an unpleasant feeling that we all experience at times. Other words to describe it might be uptight, irritable, nervous, tense, or wound up.
Some common feelings associated with anxiety are feeling on edge, nervous, panicky, stressed, irritable and uptight.
Some common physical symptoms associated with anxiety might be having a tense body or muscular pain, feeling dizzy or faint, having a tight chest, stomach churning over, a sensation of joints trembling or tingling, heart my be racing or you may be having palpitations, your breathing may be faster or slower and you may find that you are struggling to concentrate.
And finally, some common behaviour patterns associated with anxiety are avoiding things, snapping at people, struggling to relax and getting easily flustered
Sound familiar? Contact Colette at Small Steps Counselling Society to see if she can help start to make the change to a life where you control anxiety rather than it controlling you.

