Category: Mind-Body Connection
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Fear of new symptoms in chronic illness: when every twinge spirals
When you already live with a long-term condition, every new sensation can take over the day. How to tell a new signal from your usual baseline, without dismissing your fear or your body.
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Health anxiety and chronic illness: when the illness is real
When health anxiety sits on top of a real diagnosis, the work is not challenging your fears. It is learning which signals from your body deserve action, and getting your life back from the vigilance.
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Therapy for chronic pain: what it can actually do (and what it can’t)
An honest look at what psychological therapy offers when chronic pain isn’t going to resolve. What the work involves, what it doesn’t try to do, and when it might be worth a conversation.
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Understanding Medical Trauma: Coping with PTSD
PTSD from medical trauma is common in people with chronic illness. Learn how therapy can help you access healthcare without being controlled by past experiences.
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Brain Fog With a Normal MRI: Why the Scan Doesn’t Show It
MRI came back normal but the brain fog and derealisation are real. Why scans can’t show what you feel — and how to cope when you can’t trust your own mind.
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The Globus Sensation: Why Your Throat Feels Stuck
Feel a persistent lump in your throat with nothing there? Learn what globus sensation is, why anxiety makes it worse, and an approach to living well with it.
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Can Anxiety Cause PVCs? Breaking the Palpitation–Panic Cycle
Yes — anxiety can trigger PVCs, and PVCs trigger more anxiety. A UK therapist explains why benign palpitations feel so frightening and how to break the loop.
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When Scans Are Clear But The Pain Is Real: Next Steps
You have sat in that waiting room, again. You have described the pain, again. And the results have come back clear, again. “When scans are clear but pain is real” is one of the most searched phrases people type after a normal MRI or clear X-ray. If you have reached for your phone at midnight…
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When Your Doctor Says ‘It’s Just Anxiety’ (But You Know It’s Not)
You’re sitting in the GP surgery. Your heart is pounding. You’ve just explained your symptoms: the exhaustion, the pain, the way your body doesn’t feel like it belongs to you anymore. And then your doctor leans back and says it. “It’s just anxiety.” Those three words land like a punch. They dismiss weeks or months…
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When Physical Symptoms Leave You Wondering What’s Really Going On
You wake up with chest tightness. Again. Your first thought races to your heart, but then you remember your doctor said it was anxiety. So you try to breathe through it. But what if they missed something? What if this time it’s different? If you’re living with a chronic health condition, you know this loop…
