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• Why am I anxious all the time and what’s the best way to cope with it?

  10-07-2016 07:00
  
  Anxiety is necessary for survival, but it can run out of control. Here’s what you can do to offset it…There is no magic bullet for anxiety. We know this, and yet if we have a propensity for the bowel-shaking kind of anxiety that fits within the “disordered” bracket, a cure is exactly what we pray for. At the peaks of our discomfort, we are desperate for something, anything, to take the feeling away.There are, however, many ways of treating anxiety by devel
  
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• Are you a saint or a sinner? Take our personality quiz…

  10-07-2016 07:00
  
  The truth may lie in how honestly you answer quizzes and questionnaires (which in turn determines the likelihood of your having used illegal drugs)…We all like to think that, deep down, we are good people. But are we? To find out, answer ‘true’ or ‘false’ to the following:a) I have never made a comment that I knew would hurt somebody’s feelings Continue reading...
  
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• So who says competition in the classroom is inevitable? | Lucy Clark

  10-07-2016 00:40
  
  In this extract from her new book Beautiful Failures, the Guardian’s Lucy Clark tackles the culture of contests and rankings at school, arguing that for children – indeed all of us – it is unnecessary and damagingWhen I talk to my daughter about what it was about school that was so alienating for her, what made her so, so anxious, she has a one-word answer.Competition. Related: Pay close attention to who our children are – not who we want them to be | Lucy Clark We compet
  
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• High-stakes competition in the classroom can do kids' heads in | Lucy Clark

  10-07-2016 00:40
  
  In this extract from her new book Beautiful Failures, the Guardian’s Lucy Clark tackles the culture of contests and rankings at school, arguing that for children – indeed all of us – it is unnecessary and damagingWhen I talk to my daughter about what it was about school that was so alienating for her, what made her so, so anxious, she has a one-word answer.Competition. Related: Pay close attention to who our children are – not who we want them to be | Lucy Clark We compet
  
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