And hello to you and welcome to the Richard Nichols podcast, the Personal Development

Podcast series that's here to help inspire, educate and motivated to be the best you can be.

I'm psychotherapist Richard Nichols and this is episode 210. It's titled, Overwhelming Emotions.

And if you're ready, we'll start the show.

Happy flipping February. How have you all been? COVID restrictions here in the UK are lifting a bit.

Cases seem to be slowly dropping and beds in intensive care are being freed up every day.

Okay, so it's a drop of single figures throughout the whole of the UK, but at least it's going in the right direction.

And to put that into context, this time last year, there were nearly 4,000 people in intensive care because of COVID in the UK.

And last week it was less than 600.

So yes, breathe a sigh of relief, just don't do it in each other's faces because that might be pushing you look a bit.

And I know everybody's bored of COVID now.

We just want to get back to how things were when we didn't even need to consider whether

someone in the room might have a virus or not. And it looks like that's the way it's heading.

In the same way that we don't wonder whether someone has whooping cough or tuberculosis anymore. So life might not be quite so overwhelming

in 2022. That's not to say that being overwhelmed is off the table, though life can still throw

things at us that tips us over the edge, can't it? There are still going to be massive emotions

that totally overwhelm our body.

And if you are a patron of mine on patreon.com, you'd heard me talking this week about panic attacks.

If you're not a patron and you'd like to be, head on over to patreon.com and look me up.

There's hours and hours of mental health support audio on there.

It's not going to totally replace one-to-one therapy,

but I'm sure it'll make being on a waiting list a lot easier,

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