Panic attacks commonly bring people to counselling or psychotherapy. Usually, I am asked how to make them go away. Rather than simply treating the symptoms (e.g. through breathing techniques), I tend to look at the anxiety behind the panic attack as providing a warning or message that something is amiss and that whatever it is needs both your and my attention. What Are Your Rules For Living? As human beings, I believe that we put together a set of personal rules, values and
We all get anxious. Most of the time we can contain the feelings that accompany anxiety; we know that they are uncomfortable but also that they will pass. However, many of us will have periods in our lives when excess anxiety overstays its welcome and we might need some help in hustling it out the door. When something is wrong, it can sometimes be difficult for us to recognise the signs of our own excess anxiety. Often, the people around us notice but as the person in the mid
