When your mind never seems to switch off Brian (name changed), an outwardly successful high-flying executive in his late thirties, sat down in my therapy room at the beginning of our first session together and with a sigh and a strained voice declared, “I don’t know how to relax. My thoughts feel like an express…
My heart is racing and I feel constantly under threat, even though there is nothing to fear. Emotionally it is like I’m in a war zone, ready to defend or attack, even though it’s peaceful here. I look over my shoulder, tense up with certain sounds. I’m scared for my life and for the life…