{"id":86724,"date":"2025-05-09T07:04:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T07:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/86724\/"},"modified":"2025-05-09T07:04:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T07:04:15","slug":"i-thought-i-was-going-to-die-but-after-3-months-i-stopped-feeling-panic-it-was-magic-running-to-overcome-anxiety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/86724\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I thought I was going to die, but after 3 months, I stopped feeling panic. It was magic\u2019 \u2013 running to overcome anxiety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nGlenn Murphy and Molly Hayes suffered from extreme anxiety before discovering running was their saviour. Now they\u2019re helping others by posting about their experiences on social media\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Glenn Murphy out for a jog in Paris. Photo: @FromPanictoParis\/Instagram\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/986c5e9a-025e-4f6b-9030-d2c3530d7c73.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Glenn Murphy out for a jog in Paris. Photo: @FromPanictoParis\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">When Glenn Murphy laced up his running shoes for the first time in late 2018, his aim wasn\u2019t to ultimately run a marathon or start clocking up the miles at quicker speeds \u2013 he just wanted to get past his front door and go more than a few short steps from his home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">At this stage, Murphy (35) was in his tenth year of struggling with a severe anxiety disorder called agoraphobia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Glenn Murphy and Molly Hayes suffered from extreme anxiety before discovering running was their saviour. Now they\u2019re helping&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4317],"tags":[105,6686,218,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-86724","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-latest-news-ticker","10":"tag-mental-health","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114476604769183191","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}