Tag: anxiety

Fighting anxiety

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the-diary-of-a-failure:

I have been dealing with a certain degree of anxiety disorder for a while now. I have some tips on fighting it. Of course I’m no professional and professional help comes first. These tips come from my own experience:

🌼 Professional help

  • Therapy -I will continue praising therapy til’ the day I die and yet it doesn’t have to be for everyone. Just remember it’s a very good and healthy option of coping.
  • Medications -Doctor can prescribe these if they think it’s needed. I’ve expressed my slightly negative stance to pills before but I am big believer that if you need help, modern medicine is a way to go.

🌼 Right here, right now 

  • Focus on now -It’s very common for people with anxiety to worry about the past or the future. Try to look around instead. Be like a child, fascinated by every little thing.
  • Take your focus elsewhere -I’m not saying you should avoid your feelings all the time but sometimes you just need to overcome the anxiety and keep pushing through whatever life threw at you. Try to force your brain to work on something else. My personal method is looking around and naming things I see in german. German is a third language for me and I am not very good at it, therefore it takes my brain a lot of work. Entschuldigung meine deutschen Freunde.

🌼 Be gentle with yourself

  • Imagine you’re calming down a friend -Be nice to yourself just as you would be to a panicking friend. Talk to yourself gently, argue against the anxiety.
  • Comfort -Find things that calm you down and feel generally comforting. For me it’s some TV show, music or a book I like to come back to. Some people like to create or move around. I’m more comfortable creating stuff when I feel good but that’s just my personal way of things.
  • You don’t always have to producitve -Don’t push yourself too hard, okay?
  • Try things out -Let’s say a task that needs to be done in the future stresses you out real bad. Try not thinking about what’s going to happen or what will you have to do. Just sit down and do it. Just for 5 minutes. Or 2 minutes. That’s very little, isn’t it? In that time you’ll either get to work successfully or you can leave very quickly.

🌼 Talk about it

  • Talk to your friends and family –Let them know what’s happening. Most of my friends who arent’s so close to me still think I am the calmest person ever. They believe nothing scares me or stresses me out, even tho I am unbelievably anxious about almost everything. Let your loved ones know what’s wrong, they may not see it themselves.
  • Let them give opinions -If something gives you strong anxiety, present the problem to someone. They may talk you out of being so stressed about an issue that doesn’t necessarily have to be there.

I hope I helped and have an amazing May.

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anexperimentallife:

yandereslut000:

fatfemmearoorc:

whatbigotspost:

Children Won’t Say They Have Anxiety, They Say ‘My Stomach Hurts!’

Who’s having some realizations about their early childhood right now 🙋‍♀️🙋‍♀️🙋‍♀️

yeah i did exactly this. this is how children interpret panic attacks and such, so if your kid tells you they have stomach aches, especially sudden, around certain times of days, certain places, or certain events, they are likely having panic attacks

SO MUCH MORE STUFF MAKES SENSE NOW! AND IT AFFECTS ADULTS THAT WAY TOO~

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biggest-gaudiest-patronuses:

People talk about ‘acting like you own the place’ but one thing I find useful when I’m anxious in a new place is pretending that it’s familiar to me. Pretending like I’ve been there before and acting like I’m remembering it.

And really every new place becomes just a place you’ve already been, eventually. We’re only nervous because we’re stuck viewing it from the wrong side of time.

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gallusrostromegalus:

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gallusrostromegalus:

So I tried going to bed at a reasonable hour and now it’s 2AM and I am very much  A W A K E so I’m gonna be productive and set up things so I can have a real breakfast before therapy tomorrow. 

I am feeling the fuck out of this except replace productivity with anxiety and bam we are basically twins

As someone that’s lived with anxiety since early childhood:

Choosing to Do A Productive is the most reliable way to kick an anxiety attack I’ve found yet.  

It’s a pain in the ass to develop this habit (Goodness knows I fail at it all the time)  and it requires having A Productive you can feasibly do at 4AM (vaccuming is right out) but if you can do SOMETHING it consumes enough focus that anxiety fit is relegated to the back burner where it chokes like a candle without air.

Potential Productives To Do In The Wee Hours Of The Morning When Everything Is Too Much:

  • set things up for future you to have a nice breakfast
  • actually just have breakfast right now, you’re probably hungry
  • gather at least some of the trash into bags and put them by the door to take out.
  • If it is safe to do so, actually take out the trash
  • Water your plants.  They don’t care that it’s nighttime.  They thorsty.
  • Clean you pet’s food and water bowls
  • An Shower.
  • Change your sheets
  • Take everything out of your backpack/Purse/carryall, throw out the trash and at least shake out the accumulated cumbs and crud.  
  • Do a load of laundry
  • if u don’t have laundry, take the covers off your sofa and launder those.  they need it and you’ll like having a nice-smelling couch.
  • Answer An Email
  • Do Some dishes.  Maybe not all of them if they’ve been piling up, but some.  
  • Consume A Vegetable 
  • Check your snail mail.
  • anything you’d be thrilled to wake up and find out had been done in the night for you by gnomes? go do that thing.  Future You will be so happy.

This post has been trending in my notes again, so here it is for anyone else who might need it.

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naamahdarling:

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theveryworstthing:

theveryworstthing:

theveryworstthing:

the fight is harder each year.

gotta keep going because nothing ever stops.

you deserve to be new and whole.

Can someone explain what’s happening besides someone being reborn?

In the first comic, which is from the Warrior’s point of view, the Warrior has defeated the Monster, who jeers that there will always be another Monster to fight. The Monster dissolves into mist, leaving another tiny, baby Monster in its place. The Warrior picks up this helpless new baby Monster and carries it away. They will try again and do better this time.

In the second comic, which is from the Monster’s point of view, the Monster says that this has to happen; it can’t come with the Warrior, and there will always be another.  It tells the Warrior to use what they have learned to fight.  It wants to die knowing that the Warrior has hope for the future.  It dissolves into mist, and the exhausted Warrior collapses. The new baby Monster comes and brings the Warrior some water in a leaf.  Because we are reading this in the Monster’s voice, we realize that it is a new Monster, but also somehow, magically, the same.  We also see that the Monster is not inherently evil.  It is only very strong, and inevitable.

The third comic is a dialogue between the Monster and the Warrior.  The Warrior is exhausted and horrifically wounded. The Monster is also horribly maimed.  They are both dying. The Warrior doesn’t want to fight anymore.  The Monster tells them to rest and heal. The Warrior hands over their amulet, and we see the Monster’s paw become a hand just before they both dissolve into mist.  It clears, revealing that the Monster has turned into a beautiful humanoid, who says they will take care of the new baby monster the Warrior has turned into.  The two have changed roles.  The Warrior takes up the former Warrior’s gear and strides into the new year with the new baby Monster riding on their shoulders.

It is a beautiful, ruthless, hopeful metaphor about keeping up the good fight, year after year, even when we are worn down, and how we can still face the new year with hope and light, no matter how painful the last one was, and how it is okay to rest if we can’t fight.