How do you deal with Anxiety?



zimok said:
Write down every single reason why you're anxious.

Write down the worst possible outcomes pertaining to your anxiousness.

Accept every one of them as if it really happened, voice it, sing it, cry it... once you accept the worst, things can only get better. Your burden will be relieved, and each time it comes up it will be a passing thought countered by a "oh, I already accepted ...".
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This is is similar to how I help my wife whenever she feels anxious about something.

For myself, I just drink.
Which causes my wife severe anxiety.
 
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Here is my answer and I'm being totally serious. I run 3 - 5 miles every day, that helps a lot. I have a lot of sex, that helps a lot. I smoke copious amounts of good pot, that helps a lot. I drink scotch when it gets real bad. I don't know if that helps but it changes my frame of mind for a while and if it gets REALLY BAD I'll hit the Valium stash in my medicine cabinet.
 
mindmade said:
Mindfulness meditation.

When you dwell on your anxiety, usually you get anxious about being anxious, worry about worrying, and then you get more anxious and so on. That shit turns into an endless cycle that becomes hard to break when you get lost in it.

By meditating regularly, (among other things) you become more aware of your thoughts/feelings as they happen. So when you start getting anxious, you simply notice it, nonjudgmentally, without getting caught up in it (not the same as ignoring it either). You'll still probably have the anxious feelings, but it becomes easier for you to do whatever the fuck you're supposed to be doing.
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QFT

Most people will ignore your post, though, cause meditation is "too boring"
 
FSHD$$$ said:
Here is my answer and I'm being totally serious. I run 3 - 5 miles every day, that helps a lot. I have a lot of sex, that helps a lot. I smoke copious amounts of good pot, that helps a lot. I drink scotch when it gets real bad. I don't know if that helps but it changes my frame of mind for a while and if it gets REALLY BAD I'll hit the Valium stash in my medicine cabinet.
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Great Advice, minus the running part.
 
i was having anxiety tonight... then i read this thread and went anf bought a bottle of laphroaig... all fixed now.
 
What I do is a mental reset, or mini-meditation.

If I'm anxious or stressed out or worrying about something and I realize that it's happening, I blank my mind, unfocus my eyes, slow and deepen my breathing, and then I tell myself: "There's nothing positive in worrying about something I can't control. What *can* I do that's proactive or constructive instead?"

Even if you find out something shitty like you have to spend money on repairs, or you have health problems, instead of going around in circles over the same depressing shit in your mind, break out of the circle and go forward. The little "reset" trick works for me.

Over time, you'll develop a mental short-circuit. If you use the mental reset a lot when you're thinking negative thoughts, it will become easier and easier to derail those shitty trains of thought.
 
One answer is meditation. The only thing though is, its like ranking for keyword that gets 500,000 hits a month, its a long term strategy. But once you mastered it, life is unbelivable!
 
anyone do transcendental meditation? I'm thinking about getting into it. Sounds like it has a lot of benefits.
 
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