Clementine Ford: How I quell the panic when anxiety threatens to take over

By Clementine Ford
Updated May 21 2016 - 1:46pm, first published 1:41pm
Anxiety can be terrifying, but you don't have to fight it all by yourself.
Anxiety can be terrifying, but you don't have to fight it all by yourself.

About six weeks ago, after a period of relative peace and harmony, the anxiety that's plagued me on and off for more than 20 years returned to me in full force. With its reappearance, I experienced some dark moments; moments where I was frightened not only by the despair I was feeling but also by the ferocity with which I was feeling it. I found myself plagued by obsessive thoughts and terrified by my inability to get myself out of the cycle of them. Anxiety is oppressive, both physically and mentally and even the threat of it can be exhausting.

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