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Articles and reflections on mental health, therapy and personal growth
Why moving abroad makes anxiety worse, and what helps
The first weeks in a new country run on adrenaline. Everything is a small adventure, including the supermarket. You send photos home. Then the paperwork starts, and the winter, and one evening you realise you've spoken to no one outside work for eleven days, and the anxiety you thought you'd left behind is back and louder. Anxiety in that situation is not a malfunction. It's the nervous system doing exactly what it does when the ground is unfamiliar. The question is not why you're anxious. It's why you expected not to be, and what to do now that you are.
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What actually happens in a psychotherapy session
Most people who book a first call with me have been thinking about it for months. The delay is rarely about money or time. It's about not knowing what happens on the other side of the screen, and not wanting to be the person who cries at a stranger in the first ten minutes.
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