Anxiety & Stress

You finally sit down. The work is done, the emails can wait until morning. If you have children, they are in bed. By any reasonable measure, this is the moment to rest. And yet. Your mind is already somewhere else. Running through tomorrow, replaying today, moving between tasks that aren't urgent and worries that may not even be real. The television is on but you are not watching it. Someone is talking to you and you are nodding, but only part of you is there. Nothing is wron

There’s a particular kind of anxiety that rarely looks like anxiety from the outside. It looks like competence. Like someone who is organised, dependable, thorough. Someone who notices what other people miss and quietly picks up what gets left behind. To most observers, it looks like professionalism. It can feel, from the inside, like the only reasonable response to a world that keeps falling short. What it often is, is anxiety. High-functioning anxiety is one of the quieter

There's a particular kind of anxiety that doesn't announce itself dramatically. It doesn't arrive as a panic attack or a visible crisis. It settles in quietly, like a low hum you've grown so used to that you've stopped noticing it's there - until the day you realise you can't remember the last time you felt properly calm. You might recognise it as the inability to switch off, even when nothing is wrong. The feeling of dread before ordinary things (a meeting, a social event, a