Hey Pandas, How Do You Deal With Anxiety? (Closed)

If my anxiety is based on having too many things to do, I just write them all out. In my head, it always seems way more complex and difficult compared to actually seeing a to-do list and crossing things off one-by-one.

If I just feel anxious for no clear reason, I try to go and meet a friend or just let someone know how I'm feeling. Talking about it helps because once again when you say things out loud, they usually don't seem as dramatic as in your head. I know if I just sit alone and think about it, it will only get worse.

In general, just be gentle with yourself. Everything eventually passes!

I used to pick at my face till it bled when nervous, but recently I'm putting that energy into drawings. They give my hands something constructive to do

I'm GenX, we don't get anxiety. We were trained to be dead inside.

I have been trying psycho-therapy after realizing that I was enjoying anti-anxiety meds a little too much. Initially, the breathing techniques worked, but now they don't anymore. Trying to read or watch something doesn't really work, because I'm a compulsive worrier!
Sometimes I wake up from sleep as well in cold sweats and a pounding heart, without any unpleasant dreams. When that happens, I try to make a list of incidents and interactions that may be causing my anxiety attack. Next, I make two categories - 'things I can do to help this situation, and 'things that are out of my control'. My very prudent psychological counsellor taught me this trick. Once I see that worrying is only keeping me awake and making me feel sick, and not doing anything to address a particular problem, I begin to feel a little better. It's a small reminder that not everything that happens to you is your fault. You cannot control how people think or react. Misbehaviour from others and gossips about you don't reflect poorly on you but on the people engaging in it.
Once I remind myself that I automatically find my breathing relaxing.
I hope this helps someone.

I've been working with anxiety for years now. During an anxiety attack, try this technique. Name everything you see, hear, smell, taste, feel, etc. This is called grounding and will help to calm you down. It really works give it a go

Blasting my music in my earbuds and zoning out. It just distracts me from my anxious thoughts and the real world.

Medication

This is probably much more personal and of no use to others. This is regards to my son's anxiety, which is usually at the max when we are around a lot of people. If we are shopping, at festivals or things like that, or even at holiday gatherings and he starts to get anxious, he will focus on his sister. Like push the cart in stores, pull her in a wagon in parks, play on the slides at parks, or play games with her during holiday gatherings. She feeds of his energy and usually gets anxious as well, though not as visually as his (she shuts the world out), so when he really concentrates on keeping her calm it helps him relax as well. He puts himself in a protector position and says it helps him feel brave.

When you have anxiety attacks or just really strong bouts of it, take ten deep breaths. Inhale for four seconds, hold for four seconds, exhale for four, hold for four. The deep breaths help to calm you and the counting helps your brain to focus on something other than anxiety. Once you're done with that, go do something other than whatever triggered the attack. Read a few chapters of a book, take a walk, something you enjoy.

I get on the couch with my pups or go out in the backyard with the pups. Either way, my anxiety is reduced to irrelevant.

My Anxiety is kind of a rainbow of things.
1. New things are frightening - gaining experience, doing baby steps, and research really helps.
2. Dealing with a task I have experience with, but it's a big deal. Like a monthly project. Doing it bit by bit helps so it's not one giant lump thing to worry over.

Alone time and silence to decompress. Painting

Ok won't work for everyone but I use creative outlets. A lot of times it's just like I have a ton pent up in me so I use color and sounds to let it out. For example I play six or seven instruments and I play different ones depending on my mood. I also love to custom paint things like shoes and hats that I can wear later. Learning how to do these things began as a coping mechanism and now that I'm good they remain as an outlet.

I used to spit it all out to school counselors but then they all betray me.
Now I just try to avoid the chanting no matter how unpopular I become.

I sing songs in my head and sometimes outloud

I use a weighted blanket and noise canceling headphones. Usually I’ll listen to lovelytheband or Dreamers. I hope this helps :)

I published a joke one, but this is my serious one. Feed birds, listen to music, attempt to cope in school by allowing myself to not work, draw. Draw a sh*t-tonne. Just drawings everywhere. Idk man, it helps.

I listen to audio books. I have several on my phone at any given time and usually have headphones on me. My favorite tend to fantacy novels where the protagonist makes it through crazy situations. Its consoling to retreat to a different world where the hero triumphs problems even worse then my own.

Educate. If I’m feeling an intense emotion rooted in anxiety I need to either read psychological articles about the in and ands of it or I talk to my bestie who helps me work through my anxiety. Ignoring my anxiety, changing the environment, and calming exercises don’t work for me. Knowledge calms me down. I think it’s because growing up my depression and anxiety was “in my head” and to “get over it.”

If I am anxious about something, I usually just hop in bed and cuddle with my dog or hold my ball python and let her treadmill in him hands. It calms me down, or I watch something funny.