A good release for anxiety

MaryWP

Looking for an effective way to reduce anxiety during stressful periods ?

Taltos

Hi Mary

welcome to the personal issues forum. Can you please provide more context to your issue, otherwise we cannot expect folk to really be able to assist you.

Also have a look at our charter, threads/posts offering/seeking medical advice are against our charter and if this thread goes that way we will have to close it down.

Thanks
Taltos

BlueFairy

There's a great book on the topic by an Irish doctor Harry Barry, it's called Flagging Stress. He goes through all the different ways of dealing with it, worth a read.

A daily relaxation method, at least 10 minutes long, will help your stress levels reduce. I recommend a simple meditation or progressive muscle relaxation as the previous poster mentioned.

Exercise will reduce stress levels and release endorphins which will naturally raise your mood.

Make sure you take care of yourself, eat, sleep and drink well. No caffeine or stimulants.

Adamantium

(TRE) Trauma release exercises. Fairly boring name. Amazing stuff. Bizarre, wonderful effects.



I'm a massive skeptic, but damn it should be taught to every person alive, after using it myself. A bunch of exercises that invoke involuntary physical shaking.

All you need is wall and a place to lie. Takes about 20 min max.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Revolutionary-Trauma-Release-Process-Transcend/dp/1897238401/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1397078048&sr=8-2&keywords=trauma+releasing+exercises


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Was first developed (I think) during the Yugoslavian War by therapist David Berceli and was taught to thousands victims and survivors of those wars and subsequent disaster zones, with often miraculous effects on physical, mental and psychological trauma.

Have you ever seen an animal shake in fear and shock, frozen on spot?, well thweprinciple hear is the same, except humans are numb to do this and are conditioned out of doing, the exercises release the build up tension stored in the muscles of our whole body (mainly hips though)

If it can work for war victims, think about the effects it can have on ordinary person!

We all have trauma, I found myself swinging alot, so I must have a lot of trauma, in the past, but I don't remember it. Unlike an animal, we don't use our fight or flight all the time and force oursleves to do things, we're headstong, but that in effect is trauma, we we should be running everytime we don't want to do something or are near danger . But then we wouldn't live in a society!

MissPink

Mindfulness.

Have recently started it, and find it fantastic. It's to focus on the present, not thinking about past or worrying about future. Live every day as it is. Lots of info online, videos, phone apps, etc. Really love it!

Also links well with meditation and yoga.

Time Now Please

Not sure if I will get shot for saying this but I always found a night of passion (if you know what I mean) to be of instant relief for stress.

banquo

Been there.

Run! Run really far, until you can't keep running, and then keep running! And it uses up all the cortisol in your system, and you will feel normal again.

Nichololas

Mindfulness, running or going to the gym. Or combination of all three.

RossFixxxed

Right I hate to be this guy: but mindfulness can have BAD effects on certain conditions. I know this as it happened me.

It is very 'in' right now, and there have been some tangible benefits to others. HOWEVER, increasingly there are warnings around certain mental illnesses that it can cause unintended side effects. I'd have to recommend doing it in consultation with a psychologist/doctor/psychiatrist.

When I did it, I practised it for five years. Daily, seven days a week. Increasingly the mindfulness helped calm my 'monkey mind' as the buddhists put it. And then the next day the elastic snapped back and the feeling was HORRIBLE. I was swamped with negative feelings, that I would apply mindfulness to and that made things work. I ended in a tail spin. The same goes for T.M. also. There are good sides to meditation, but like anything there are downsides.

I hate to be negative on an easy practice, one that is doable anywhere nearly, but I'd advise caution. Exercise would be a better starting point.

I was trying mindfulness about 15 years ago, before Jon Kabbat Zinn and the likes brought it into popular psychology and I was a big advocate. I'd rather be anxious than ever do it again. I did classes with psychologists and psychiatrists and they told me usually 2 or 3 in a class of about 20 would have this reaction, but they had NOT tabulated the figures at the time. There are psychologists in my family and they are increasingly dubious about for similar reasons.

Like anything you can over do it, do it wrong, and put too much faith in one thing. Mindfulness is part of a bigger therapy that may factor in exercise, diet, medication, CBT and so on and so on.

NOTE: The above is MY own experience, not based on empirical evidence and trials, just the issues it cause me in my own life. Take it with a grain of salt BUT I can see absolutely zero harm in consulting / checking in with a professional.

Flippyfloppy

RossFixxxed wrote: »

Right I hate to be this guy: but mindfulness can have BAD effects on certain conditions. I know this as it happened me.

It is very 'in' right now, and there have been some tangible benefits to others. HOWEVER, increasingly there are warnings around certain mental illnesses that it can cause unintended side effects. I'd have to recommend doing it in consultation with a psychologist/doctor/psychiatrist.

When I did it, I practised it for five years. Daily, seven days a week. Increasingly the mindfulness helped calm my 'monkey mind' as the buddhists put it. And then the next day the elastic snapped back and the feeling was HORRIBLE. I was swamped with negative feelings, that I would apply mindfulness to and that made things work. I ended in a tail spin. The same goes for T.M. also. There are good sides to meditation, but like anything there are downsides.

I hate to be negative on an easy practice, one that is doable anywhere nearly, but I'd advise caution. Exercise would be a better starting point.

I was trying mindfulness about 15 years ago, before Jon Kabbat Zinn and the likes brought it into popular psychology and I was a big advocate. I'd rather be anxious than ever do it again. I did classes with psychologists and psychiatrists and they told me usually 2 or 3 in a class of about 20 would have this reaction, but they had NOT tabulated the figures at the time. There are psychologists in my family and they are increasingly dubious about for similar reasons.

Like anything you can over do it, do it wrong, and put too much faith in one thing. Mindfulness is part of a bigger therapy that may factor in exercise, diet, medication, CBT and so on and so on.

NOTE: The above is MY own experience, not based on empirical evidence and trials, just the issues it cause me in my own life. Take it with a grain of salt BUT I can see absolutely zero harm in consulting / checking in with a professional.

Why, because you weren't dealing with negative thoughts, just papering over the cracks?

RossFixxxed

Flippyfloppy wrote: »

Why, because you weren't dealing with negative thoughts, just papering over the cracks?

I'm not claiming at all I was doing it well, or whatever, but I wad doing a lot of other therapy and was advised by 2 psychiatrists that mindfulness was making things worse and the 'bounce back' was too serious to ignore. I stopped and started improving with the other therapies.

Just to reiterate I'm not saying it is bad, I'm saying like anything therapy related use a professional to help out. There is no one fix for all in these things.

Semele

It depends on the issues a person has- for example it's not recommended for anyone with severe trauma or dissociative type personality issues, without being supervised by a therapist. Mindfulness involves learning to sit with your thoughts, be they good or bad, without judging or trying to change anything. For someone with issues that involve flashbacks or feeling depersonalised then mindfulness practice can be overwhelming and uncontrolled. Doesn't mean it doesn't still have benefits, but those people would be best off working on control first so they can pull back when they want to.

RossFixxxed wrote: »

Right I hate to be this guy: but mindfulness can have BAD effects on certain conditions. I know this as it happened me.

It is very 'in' right now, and there have been some tangible benefits to others. HOWEVER, increasingly there are warnings around certain mental illnesses that it can cause unintended side effects. I'd have to recommend doing it in consultation with a psychologist/doctor/psychiatrist.

When I did it, I practised it for five years. Daily, seven days a week. Increasingly the mindfulness helped calm my 'monkey mind' as the buddhists put it. And then the next day the elastic snapped back and the feeling was HORRIBLE. I was swamped with negative feelings, that I would apply mindfulness to and that made things work. I ended in a tail spin. The same goes for T.M. also. There are good sides to meditation, but like anything there are downsides.

I hate to be negative on an easy practice, one that is doable anywhere nearly, but I'd advise caution. Exercise would be a better starting point.

I was trying mindfulness about 15 years ago, before Jon Kabbat Zinn and the likes brought it into popular psychology and I was a big advocate. I'd rather be anxious than ever do it again. I did classes with psychologists and psychiatrists and they told me usually 2 or 3 in a class of about 20 would have this reaction, but they had NOT tabulated the figures at the time. There are psychologists in my family and they are increasingly dubious about for similar reasons.

Like anything you can over do it, do it wrong, and put too much faith in one thing. Mindfulness is part of a bigger therapy that may factor in exercise, diet, medication, CBT and so on and so on.

NOTE: The above is MY own experience, not based on empirical evidence and trials, just the issues it cause me in my own life. Take it with a grain of salt BUT I can see absolutely zero harm in consulting / checking in with a professional.

Gael23

Interested in this too.
I find myself in a bit of a situation at the moment and its really getting me down.
Things came to a head last night and I got that feeling where your blood boils and felt my stomach turning into knots. I had been to the gym but the story took a new twist after that which just made me so angry.

Apart from taking steps to distance myself from the whole thing I have een finding over the past week its just as good to let it out to whoever will listen.

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l find swimming and jogging brill

Gael23

That does help a bit alright. Im on the other side of it now after 3 wweeks but I still feel let down.