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

Usually - I just scream at everybody... not the best coping strategy

I like to draw/eat something comforting and take a long warm bubble bath :D, my shoulders always get super stiff, and it helps

Take my jogging shoes and run. Best through the woods. Gets the chemicals in my head right or at least I'm too tired to freak out.

I'm not an anxious person, but my son has issues with anxiety along with his Autism and sensory perception disorders. When he gets overwhelmed out in public, he comes to me (mom) or his Grams for tight hugs or back rubs for reassurance as well as asks for a quiet space, usually a corner, to calm himself. When he's home he will soak in a hot bath or lose himself in youtube videos while cuddled with one of the cats.

I usually internalise and shut down with anxiety and it eats at me. I find it helpful to share it with some friend or my brother so it doesn't stay inside me. I'm a Christian, so find praying also helps a lot. Hope you get through this well

I have already left an answer, but I also find cuddling pets helps a lot for me. I know that not everyone has a pet, and if you don't, then I suggest finding something you like doing (reading, drawing, watching YouTube, a sport, etc.) and doing that.

I don't. I vibe with it. Same with my depression

screw reality im out *disassociates*

If I’m at home, usually I start to read one of my favourite books. After a few pages I start to feel better, and after a few chapters, I’ve forgotten about my anxious feelings completely!

Age regression! Basically when an individual goes into a childlike state of mind to cope with stress, trauma, anxiety and many more!!

laying in pitch black blasting mother mother in my earbuds :)

I take a long, hot shower or bath. It isn't a long-term solution, but it's a nice, relaxing way to forget about life and just be alone

Like others, I find making lists to be most helpful. Although sometimes the list makes me realize I have a million more things to do than I thought, and then I really freak out. So I have to schedule down time - like even if it is 15 minutes to pet a kitty or listen to music. I might be up 15 minutes later that night, but just taking the break really helps.

For anxiety that is obvious to me, anything that gets me out of my head helps. A bike ride, some gardening, cooking, visting with a friend, etc. There's also a deeper level of something like anxiety that I never knew I had until I started doing meditation retreats. After my first week-long retreat I saw how much my pointless, extraneous thinking affected my behavior and wasted my energy, often causing subtle anxiety and also fatigue. That was a real eye-opener.

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I listen to lofi sleep music on big gamer headphones that are virtually noise-cancelling. If I find myself doing anything other than concentrating on the music, I immediately redirect to focusing on the beat. It helps me calm down!

I do the exact opposite of what I want to do

Usually when I have an anxiety attack or just an anxiety moment in general, my first thought is about how i want to rant to my gf or friends about it. Ive done that before, it usually just causes more stress on the relationship bc you're causing them to carry the burden of whatever you're feeling with them, not that most would tell you that

or i want to just yell or scream or cry, instead i try to do things that DISTRACT me from that feeling, like drawing, or writing, or cooking. It doesn't work half the time but sometimes it does and then i feel better

if all else fails, just cry it out. it's healthy and makes you feel better some times.

I do puzzles especially number ones or even math problems. Thinking about numbers uses different pathways in the brain than thinking about all your worries and for me, it diverts my mind from the swirl of stressful words spinning around. Really, any concentrated activity that is not one you normally do can move your brain to a different place. I work with words, so numbers force me into different thought patterns. Others may find word puzzles or even jigsaw puzzles or building their old (or their kids') Lego sets to be calming.

This may sound childish but it actually works ; count backwards from 100 by 3

I take a day to myself! If I must go to school I just dont get anything done because mental health is more important than grades. If it’s not a school day I’ll put any other tasks aside unless they really have to get done and I only do what I want until I feel better which is usually only a day or 2