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Extreme anxiety now

super-meg

Hi. 

My anxiety is currently right through the roof! I have an appointment soon to get some medication for it but does anybody have any ideas how I can lower it myself for a bit just to get me by?

thanks. 

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  • I'm in agreement with susie163 about using "break" words or phrases. I had terrible worry cycles going through every permutation of what might happen if, if and if, but you have to convince yourself that most of the imagined outcomes are very unlikely.

    It was initially hard to get myself to use "breaks", but I've several that seem to engage automatically now, for example "I'm really tired of this" or "I want to move on now".It just seems to be enough to stop the thought spiral for a bit.

    The other thing is to keep a notebook. I used to do this a lot but seem no longer to need it. But I'd write down things that worried me, and somehow having them written down enabled me to get them out of my head.

    Go through what you've written down and see if there are things you can sort now, that are easy to resolve. That then reduces the number of things you have to worry about.

    Its not a universal fix, but it helps most times.

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  • I'm in agreement with susie163 about using "break" words or phrases. I had terrible worry cycles going through every permutation of what might happen if, if and if, but you have to convince yourself that most of the imagined outcomes are very unlikely.

    It was initially hard to get myself to use "breaks", but I've several that seem to engage automatically now, for example "I'm really tired of this" or "I want to move on now".It just seems to be enough to stop the thought spiral for a bit.

    The other thing is to keep a notebook. I used to do this a lot but seem no longer to need it. But I'd write down things that worried me, and somehow having them written down enabled me to get them out of my head.

    Go through what you've written down and see if there are things you can sort now, that are easy to resolve. That then reduces the number of things you have to worry about.

    Its not a universal fix, but it helps most times.

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