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Panic

Panic

PanicRob Husband

A few months ago, while working away from home, I woke at 2am with an intense feeling of anxiety. It had never happened to me before, and I thought to myself: is this what a panic attack feels like? Whatever it was, I knew it wasn’t good.

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Wallowing on the way to wholeness

Wallowing on the way to wholeness

Wallowing on the way to wholenessAndy Howie

We often see depression and anxiety as pushing feelings and emotions down. In her book Constructive Wallowing, Tina Gilbertson says that we associate wallowing with going down a hole, but if we take the ‘w’ off ‘wallowing’ and move it to ‘hole’ it becomes ‘allowing whole’,

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Existential anxiety about pensions and the joy of compost heaps

Existential anxiety about pensions and the joy of compost heaps

Existential anxiety about pensions and the joy of compost heapsRob Husband

I’ve had an existential crisis about my pension scheme – which, to put it bluntly, is rubbish. It is meant to provide me with security, but it is just bombarding me with uncertainty.

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