Man lying on bed looking at mobile phone with a cup in the foreground

Why can’t I relax, even when nothing is wrong?

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…