F – Fight, Flight and Freeze
Introduction
This entry sits under F in The A–Z of Stress & Anxiety, a project that frames stress and anxiety not as problems to eliminate, but as indicators of internal system state. Each letter names a familiar experience that often brings people to therapy, coaching...
E – Exhaustion
Introduction
Within The A–Z of Stress & Anxiety, each letter names a common way that stress makes itself known. The intention is not to provide diagnoses or problems to solve, but to offer a shared language for recognising how the nervous system behaves under pressure.
Exhaustion i...
D – Disconnected
Introduction
The A–Z of Stress & Anxiety is not intended as a checklist of symptoms or a diagnostic framework. It is a shared language for recognising how stress and anxiety show up in everyday life.
Each letter names a common experience that often appears when the nervous system...
C – Cortisol: cravings, comfort seeking, and compulsive behaviours
Introduction
The A–Z of Stress & Anxiety is not intended as a checklist or a curriculum. It functions more as an index of recognisable entry points. Each letter names something people often notice in themselves, even if they have n...
B – Burnout
Introduction
The A–Z of Stress & Anxiety is not a list of symptoms to memorise or problems to solve.
It is a way of naming how stress and anxiety appear in everyday life, often gradually and quietly, long before anything feels acute.
Burnout is one of the most common entry points. Not...
Introduction
This piece sits at the beginning of The A–Z of Stress & Anxiety for a reason.
Anxiety is often the first word people reach for when something does not feel right internally. It is the label most readily available in everyday language, and the one most commonly typed into a search bar....
