All posts are listed in chronological order. If you are new to the blog, you may want to read the first four for context. A new post is added each week.
Grabbing the root
The first post. Gregg chooses to respond to anxiety, and commits to walking the path towards overcoming it.
Understanding anxiety
How Gregg has come to understand what anxiety is through his battles with it.
Two Questions – Part One
The story of Gregg’s battle with anxiety. In Part One, Gregg discusses his nervous breakdown in April 2015, and everything that led up to it.
Two Questions – Part Two
Gregg’s story continued. In Part Two, Gregg discusses the fallout and getting onto the road to recovery.
Anxiety and the nature of change
In overcoming anxiety, one must first understand the nature of change, and how embracing it is one of the crucial steps to recovery.
Drink away fear; wake up with anxiety
Written six weeks into a year long challenge to not drink, Gregg talks about his relationship with alcohol and how it had to change to deal with anxiety.
Health, Hypochondria, and Parmos
Health anxiety can be profoundly devastating, and is the largest part of Gregg’s anxiety. He talks about where it came from and how he is calming it down.
Working towards mental collapse
How the pressures of work can exacerbate anxiety.
The lonely battle with social anxiety
Of course you don’t have social anxiety, I told myself. It’s just that everyone just hates you.
Anxiety and depression: two sides of the same coin
The close relationship between anxiety and depression.
The anxiety of procrastination
Procrastination both thrives in the face of anxiety, and feeds it.
Strategies for anxiety – physical
An overview of coping strategies, part one of two, focusing on the physical side of the condition.
Strategies for anxiety – mental
An overview of coping strategies, part two of two, focusing on the mental side of the condition.