Practical guides for anxious minds
Articles on anxiety patterns, grounding techniques, panic management, and the psychology behind overthinking. Written for people who want to understand their anxiety, not just cope with it.
Written by Sebastian Cochinescu, Founder, Anima Felix. It is designed for everyday anxiety support and does not replace therapy, diagnosis, or emergency care.
Anxiety vs ADHD: Why They Overlap and How to Tell Them Apart
A busy mind, restlessness, trouble focusing: anxiety and ADHD share surface symptoms and often occur together. But the engine behind them is different, and telling them apart usually needs a professional.
Anxiety After Drinking: Hangxiety Explained
You had a few drinks, and this morning the anxiety hit before your feet touched the floor. Hangxiety is not guilt or weakness. It is a measurable chemical rebound in your brain, and it has an expiration time.
Anxiety and Perfectionism: When Good Enough Never Is
The kind of perfectionism that makes you rewrite one email for 40 minutes is not about wanting good work. It is an anxiety management strategy, and seeing that changes how you work with it.
Anxiety Before and During Your Period
If your anxiety reliably climbs in the week before your period and eases once it starts, you are not imagining a pattern. Hormone shifts change how your brain regulates calm, on a schedule.
Panic Attack Hangover: Why You're Wrecked the Next Day
The panic attack passed, but the next day you feel like you ran a marathon: drained, foggy, sore, emotionally thin. That is the panic attack hangover, and it is not in your head.
AI Companion Apps and Loneliness: Help, Crutch, or Trap?
An AI companion can genuinely take the edge off a lonely evening. The risk is quieter: an app designed to keep you talking to it can slowly crowd out the human connection you actually need.
Anxiety vs Depression: How to Tell the Difference
Anxiety points toward a threatening future; depression points toward loss. They feel different, but they overlap a lot and often occur together, which is why they can be hard to untangle.
Can Anxiety Cause Dizziness?
Dizziness is one of the most common physical symptoms of anxiety, and one of the scariest-feeling. In most cases it is your nervous system reacting, not a sign something is wrong.
Can Anxiety Cause Nausea?
Nausea is a genuine physical response to anxiety, not something you are imagining. Your gut and brain are in constant two-way conversation, so when your mind is on alert your stomach often is too.