Dealing with Anxiety- Making Anxiety your Best Fallible Friend! | Victoria Bristow | TEDxNorwichED

What if you could stop battling with anxiety? Postnatal illness made me too anxious to leave the house, I was agoraphobic for three years. Thanks to Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and study I learnt to see my anxiety as a well-meaning friend, who gets things wrong sometimes, my Best Fallible Friend. Now I am able to show myself and my anxiety compassion and forgiveness, anxiety is no longer a barrier to success. My dream is that my journey will help you make friends with your anxiety, leading to a better future with your Best Fallible Friend. Vicky is a proud mum to 8-year-old disabled twins. It was a difficult birth and left Vicky with serious physical and mental health issues which have been overcome thanks to the loving support and handwork of her Mother, Church family and supportive friends.
Vicky has found her passion for psychology later in life as a mature student, she is in her final year of a degree in Cognitive Psychology at the University of East Anglia. She has worked as a research assistant in the department conducting, successfully recruiting for and running over 100 experiments on time perception and language. She has recently been awarded a second research assistant post, which will involve cognitive research with infants. Proud achievements have been obtaining the UEA Gold award, writing a prize-winning poem about the visual processing system and singing on stage with Lulu as part of an amazing “Pride Choir”.

[Meganmcdermot]

I have anxiety and every day I want to stay at home because I worry about what people are going to say and for me I think that this has opened up my heart and shown me to not be scared of who you are. I hope that this speech has changed other people as much as it has changed me because it is so inspiring and motivational. Great speech. Well done.

[Keatoil]

This deserves more views- absolutely awesome speech :)

[seankratz]

Thank you very much. I thought my anxiety is my greatest enemy. You have shown me a different approach!!!!

[wednesdayschild]

I am cultivating a better relationship with fear. Imagine her sitting beside me and we discuss.

[dionisiodelorbe]

This is powerful! Thanks for sharing your story!

[rickm]

*You have a sensitized nervous system. Watch Shaan Kasaam. You will thank me later. Dr. Claire Weekes has a great book!😊