Hello, a massive welcome to Happy Place with me, Fern Cotton.

Now look, I'll be honest with you, as I always am.

I'd had a pretty good run of not feeling that anxious for a while there,

but the last month, I'd say, my anxiety has been kicking in again.

So I thought we would do an episode today all about anxiety.

I feel the tingles in my neck and I feel the anxiety creeping in.

I start panicking and then I spiral.

I would never wish OCD, depression or anxiety on anyone.

My adult just goes offline and then it's just my little child's self like, help me, help me.

In a weird way, I think my capacity to feel that kind of darkness also allows me

to appreciate the sun with anxiety you can loads people you find a different way to manage it and it can

only be managed it will always come back and go away and come back and go away to get them like in a

supermarket queue i would always get claustrophobic and feel trapped and often have to abandon my

trolley. Got really bad and I got through it. That'll probably come again and again and again and again

and different skins for my life. A bit of a light bulb went off because now when I noticed where the

people please were shown up, I was able to go, oh, I'm anxious about something.

So like I said, my anxiety has increased massively in the last month.

And obviously, anxiety comes in different flavours.

So how my anxiety looks will be very different to yours.

But this month, little bits of OCD have been creeping back in, lock checking obsessively, hob checking obsessively,

all that kind of jazz, all the usual stuff, which is, I find it boring now because it's just like,

oh, I can't bother to do this again, but I know the score, I know what I've got to do.

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