How do you all deal with anxiety?

Shergar6

So i have something coming up this week that's causing me some stress/anxiety. It's not majorly serious and i am chill enough but it's still there on my mind. What do you lot do to deal with stress?

Funny and serious replies welcome :pac:

Noveight

Remind myself that I'll be dead in 50ish years anyway and that even if I cock up really, really bad, it's all be irrelevant in the long run.

Best o' luck.

Mountainsandh

I try to go to bed early



does not always work

Parachutes

Noveight wrote: »

Remind myself that I'll be dead in 50ish years anyway and that even if I cock up really, really bad, it's all be irrelevant in the long run.

Best o' luck.

This.

None of us will even be remembered in 100 years and we'll be dead for a lot longer. There's not too much to worry about to be honest.

Beer and Rocket League. The last few months have had too much go seriously wrong for anything that else to work.

jackofalltrades

1. Control your breathing.
2. Rationalise things.
3. Work on improving my self-confidence.
4. Try to do something new every now any again so your OK with new challenges

RayM

I deal with it by hiding, avoiding, vomiting, dry-heaving or shitting.

Sometimes all of the above.

It passes. It always passes. I hope you feel less anxious soon.

Mountainsandh

What I find good too is to plan something that I'll do after the "bad moment" has passed.
Like a day or a week-end away, or a photo excursion since photography is my thing. I think of how much I'll enjoy it, regardless of what went on before.

I find it helps put things in perspective.
Doing things that make you happy is (probably) more important than whatever this thing that's causing you anxiety is.

harry Bailey esq

RayM wrote: »

I deal with it by hiding, avoiding, vomiting, dry-heaving or shitting.

Sometimes all of the above.

It passes. It always passes. I hope you feel less anxious soon.

Benzos do the trick for me,they dont agree with everyone though it must be said.Cognitive behavioural therapy is excellent apparently,but again,its not for everyone.

FanadMan

Avoidance, meditation, concentrating on something (designing and building a circuit or playing the guitar).

If that fails, alcohol or valium....or both But in long term anxiety neither of those are recommended. Found mindfulness and CBT really good - gives you the tools to step back and see where the real problem lies. Took a lot of trial and error to find a CBT that worked for me. Some were too by the book and others were too distracted.

Duff

Diazepam 10mg.

Cupcake_Crisis

I go away from everything and everyone. Take a quiet moment, preferably in the fresh air, take a few deep breaths and try to shut my brain up.

Outlaw Pete

I do a bit of Yoga, listen to music from the composer Claude Debussy and watch hardcore pornography.

AllGunsBlazing

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Beer and Rocket League. The last few months have had too much go seriously wrong for anything that else to work.

This only works when I'm winning. Otherwise it's throw the controller against the wall.:o

Leilak

anticipation can be often worse than realisation

Grayson

AllGunsBlazing wrote: »

This only works when I'm winning. Otherwise it's throw the controller against the wall.:o

I have a friend who's destroyed two xbox elite controllers playing Rainbow Six Siege.

I find a healthy dose of stoicism is good. Acceptance of things for what they are. I also like existentialism. It's about the freedom of the individual and the responsibility that comes with it. Most of the time when we get anxious about something it's because we don't want to make a decision. Once you make the decision to do something or do nothing the anxiety quite often disappears.

So for example, lets say that you have clinical anxiety. It's not something you can just shake off. You however can still do something about it. You can visit a doctor, get a prescription, see a therapist. And just doing that is something that will help you get better.

So, either way, the answer is to do something.

puppieperson1

Xanax and walk the dogs

RobertKK

Go for a walk, listen to music, rationalise the issue causing stress, and as said above the anticipation is usually worse than the reality.

biko

Stop comparing yourself with people better off than you, and start comparing yourself with people worse off.

fryup

Shergar6 wrote: »

So i have something coming up this week that's causing me some stress/anxiety. It's not majorly serious and i am chill enough but it's still there on my mind.

public speaking is it???

Shergar6

fryup wrote: »

public speaking is it???

Ha, no - Thank God!

bodice ripper

I watch Boston Legal and draw.

fryup

fryup wrote: »

public speaking is it???

Shergar6 wrote: »

Ha, no - Thank God!

well tell us then, maybe we could help

midnight city

Avoid ruminating about it as much as you can. Try to think of other things.

COH

Exercise

thee glitz

It's drink, isnt it - pretty sure I'm right.

nkav86

Had a Xmas party this week with the job, not long there and I have social anxiety, so I was dreading it! Did the usual run through of all the ways I could mess up and reactions from my work mates to my actions..... Made myself worse of course! But in the end I went, felt a bit odd but tried my best to dismiss my anxiety and ended up having a great night!

We have a habit of shooting ourselves in the foot and ruining things for ourselves, but we need to try push through and take things as they come, it can be worth it.

Good luck OP

Spanish Eyes

For some strange reason I get a bit panicky when in a crowded church. Not that I go very often but recently I had to do a reading at a friend's wedding. Yikes, even the thought of having to be near the front in the church had me sweating days before.

I bit the bullet, went to the doc explained my dilemma. She gave me two valium 5mgs that's all!

I took half (2.5) earlier in the day, and the other half outside the church. Sailed through it. They have their uses, but only for now and then.

(I still have one 5mg left for emergencies!).

I'm just saying that occasionally they can be brilliant. Not advocating benzo taking every day or anything!

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

Honestly, learning to put yourself first and making yourself happy was what worked for me. During really hard periods of my life, I thought I may have been depressed or anxious but for me - it was other people putting their problems and issues on me. I was perfectly fine when I was left by myself but would get sucked in to others moods/drama.
I learned to take a fucck it approach to most things, cut myself off from negative energy and put the same effort into relationships as the other person, which was fucck all, and I was much happier.

I rarely feel anxious or sad anymore

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

For some strange reason I get a bit panicky when in a crowded church. Not that I go very often but recently I had to do a reading at a friend's wedding. Yikes, even the thought of having to be near the front in the church had me sweating days before.

I bit the bullet, went to the doc explained my dilemma. She gave me two valium 5mgs that's all!

I took half (2.5) earlier in the day, and the other half outside the church. Sailed through it. They have their uses, but only for now and then.

(I still have one 5mg left for emergencies!).

I'm just saying that occasionally they can be brilliant. Not advocating benzo taking every day or anything!

I love Valium

Spanish Eyes

LexieOnRale wrote: »

I love Valium

Slippery slope...:D