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Dealing with anxiety

Cinnabar_wing

How do people cope with being anxious?

Sometimes it just gets too much and I crumple. But only on the inside, I'm quite capable of not showing it at all and getting on with life, it's just an extra thing to carry quietly.

Music does help me feel calmer at least for a while.

Anyway, apologies.

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  • No need to apologise   because you are welcome, just as much as anybody else, to say what’s on your mind and to ask questions. 

    I’m sad that things have been getting too much for you, but I’m glad that you have said.

    Apart from medication prescribed by the doctor, these three things help me the most.

    Going for a long, fast walk and using my senses to focus on what’s around me. Seeing, listening, smelling, feeling (the air temperature, the ground through my feet, bark of a tree etc.) Tasting the water I might be carrying.

    If things really unsettle me, it is impossible to sit with my usual way of meditating in silence. This happened recently so in desperation, I resubscribed to Headspace, just to have a voice talk me through some specific meditations for anxiety. It helped better than I had thought.

    The other thing that helps is if I set a timer for 4 or 5 minutes and do squats or something else as fast as possible. The idea is to push to the limit so my heart rate is raised and I’m out of breath, then stop. When I’ve caught my breath I do a breathing exercise counting so many breaths in and a longer breath out.  This technique is on Headspace and I found having a voice pushing me to keep going when I’m exercising helped me put in more effort.

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  • No need to apologise   because you are welcome, just as much as anybody else, to say what’s on your mind and to ask questions. 

    I’m sad that things have been getting too much for you, but I’m glad that you have said.

    Apart from medication prescribed by the doctor, these three things help me the most.

    Going for a long, fast walk and using my senses to focus on what’s around me. Seeing, listening, smelling, feeling (the air temperature, the ground through my feet, bark of a tree etc.) Tasting the water I might be carrying.

    If things really unsettle me, it is impossible to sit with my usual way of meditating in silence. This happened recently so in desperation, I resubscribed to Headspace, just to have a voice talk me through some specific meditations for anxiety. It helped better than I had thought.

    The other thing that helps is if I set a timer for 4 or 5 minutes and do squats or something else as fast as possible. The idea is to push to the limit so my heart rate is raised and I’m out of breath, then stop. When I’ve caught my breath I do a breathing exercise counting so many breaths in and a longer breath out.  This technique is on Headspace and I found having a voice pushing me to keep going when I’m exercising helped me put in more effort.

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