My Journey Dealing With Anxiety, Panic & Depression
As part of the work I am doing to campaign for better mental health in the work place, I am always on the look-out for companies and organisations that are truly making a difference.
The first organisation I would like to highlight is The Rugby Players Association (The RPA).
I was fortunate to be able to speak with Caroline Guthrie, the Senior Development Manager so I could gain an insight into the great work The RPA are doing to support its members. Read more
Circuitry is the connection between neurons, the basic building blocks of the brain, that we explored previously.
“Neurons that fire together wire together” – Carla Shatz
We learnt that neurons FIRE, which is where a positive charge travels from the receiving dendrites of the neuron, through the cell body, all the way to the axon at the other end. In order for the neurons to build connections between themselves, one neuron must be firing at the same time as another.
When firing together the connection between the neurons is strengthened, and eventually a pattern of circuitry develops in which the activation of one neuron causes the other to activate. Read more
As we have seen previously, the brain is constantly working to keep you safe from danger and harm; this is great up until the point when the anxiety is so bad that the brain goes into safety overdrive and your feel paralysed; it is as if your brain has built a prison to keep you locked away in.
While the brain thinks it is helping, being locked in this cell actually makes you feel trapped; you can imagine, and almost touch the metal bars, the solid concrete or brick walls, see the little window that is too high for you to look out of and only lets in a small amount of light. Read more
I left school when I was 17; I had finished my A-Levels and couldn’t get out of the place quick enough.
It is safe to say that I hated school, or maybe I should say my school; it was fine if you were one of the smart ones or really good at sports, but if you were somewhere in the middle you kind of went unnoticed.
The place was also a breeding ground for anxieties which I pretty much kept to myself. Read more
