Hey Pandas, What's An Anxiety Coping Mechanism That Works For You? (Closed)

Breathe in quickly but breathe out slowly. It tricks the brain into that calming breathing out after you've been startled, but without being startled at all. Physical exercise helps. House cleaning helps. Self care like showering helps. There's no one trick that works for everyone, unfortunately, but there are a lot of tricks out there so I know that we'll all be able to find something here. Pandas taking care of Pandas. :)

Meditation

i bounce my leg whenever im bored, stressed or anxious

True crime, my cat, and medication.

Ever heard of Undertale? I love the music. And its just a really nice thing to listen to when I need to calm down.

Grounding skills! I typically use some combo of these for high anxiety, panic or uncontrollable crying. 1. Easiest one is I hand them a small rock and tell them to tell me everything they know about the rock. People usually say things like “It’s a brown rock, it has a chip on the corner.” Then I ask them what the rock surface feels like, does it feel cold or room temp? Basics like that. Then after distracting them with rock questions, I explain that that patient just uses their sense of sight and touch

A long quiet walk on trail/woods with my dog

It depends on what my stressor is. I’m a kindergarten teacher and sometimes dealing with the children/parents has completely worn me down. If need a short break before handling my own kids at home, I’ll take a half hour in my room with low lighting and either read, listen to an audiobook, play a mindless game, or take a short power nap. Just whatever shuts my brain off for a brief respite. If it’s just life in general, like I don’t have a specific reason to be anxious but I feel anxious anyway, then anything creative helps me. Crafting, painting, decorating, whatever. Now in cases like today where I received bad, life changing news? Movement. Working out, dancing, heavy duty cleaning, anything with real heart-rate increasing movement. It helps burn off panicky nervous energy and I usually emerge from the other side much calmer and with a clearer head.

Drawing even if in terrible

staying away from other humans as much as possible

For mild to moderate anxiety, treat it like an annoying client who needs to calm down. Tell it "Not now" and do something distracting. Maybe an hour later, check in with my anxiety and see how it's doing. There's a good chance it's doing better. Then back to doing something else. Then check later in the day and the anxiety will be smaller. And so on, until it's gone.

When I'm really stressed I take a hot shower and play music very loud. Sometimes I just shutdown, that's not a very good coping mechanism though.

I try to reason through the anxiety. first I try to figure out exactly what I'm scared of, then

I like those pixel art games, they're great for destressing. I also go for runs, I live near a national park so I go down the nearest trail, it's really peaceful. If I'm not at home, just being alone for five minutes and talking it through helps a lot.

Hi again, btw, my bird is still my comfort,when im anxious ot shy, she's a budgie and her name is peanut, she died again a few hours ago. I hope i can see her again😭😭😭😭

Playing with/hugging my two puppies and weight training.. aerobic exercise just doesn't work for me... but weights, yes.

Sometimes they are still not enough... i need to able to combine the two somehow.... puppy lifting ?

Keeping my hands busy keeps my mind calm. Continuously learning and accomplishing projects help

i like to say the alphabet backwards, because it makes me think. also take deep breaths in between.
Z... breathe...Y..... breathe
it really helps, trust me, especially in a panic attack or anxiety attack

Often times don't take care of my anxiety properly, and it usually leads to a panic attack. When I do deal with my anxiety, I take some deep breaths, and try to focus on slowing my heart rate. Because I've had multiple panic attacks before, I usually take my pulse often. Sometimes I also try reassuring myself via positive self-talk.

I’ve yet to find one. It doesn’t help, but alcohol is still my only coping mechanism. My cats help me a little bit but are a cause of great anxiety too! One of them is stuck in a cycle of itch, scratch, make it bleed, let it scab over, scab becomes itchy, scratch, make it bleed, scab over … and so on!