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”.
Vicky’s future ambitions are to obtain a first-class degree, move onto further study and to support her twins to learn to walk. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx