Anxiety Support Group

Anxiety is a physical condition marked by intense and persistent feelings of distress, fear, angst or dread. General anxiety caused by routine day-to-day stresses usually passes quickly and is experienced by almost everyone at one time or another. However, such feelings that linger over time and are very difficult to cope with, and which lack a clear cause, may indicate...

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How do you guys cope with your anxiety

Austin00
Austin00

I need advice how do you guys get through the day deal with your anxiety what techniques do you guys do

peterthegreat
peterthegreat
Emotional freedom technique. Massage. Dance clubs.
mtd
mtd
Practice acceptance, I’m in recovery, the practice works if you put in the work. My recovery strategies are anxietycentre.com, Hope and Help For Your Nerves by Dr Claire Weekes and It’s Only Anxiety by Carl James. I don’t cope, I accept. These books will change the way you view anxiety and how you deal with it. Recovery is possible, many have done it.
Austin00
Austin00
OK thank you for the advice
arfie
arfie
hello austin. welcome to ds.

i've received heavy duty psychotherapy for my own advice giving/seeking compulsions, so i always feel like a recovering alcoholic reaching for a liquor bottle when i approach advice circles, but sharing strictly personal experience is a horse of a different color.

my own anxiety management begins and ends with loving, compassionate radical acceptance. anxiety is not my enemy. i work to train/use it effectively rather than continually berating myself for having abnormally high anxiety levels. i is what i is and i ain't what i ain't.

the anxiety management tools i use in addition to radical acceptance are more numerous than i care to type just now. they are more than a mere human can absorb in a single sitting, so i might as well give into my laziness.

perhaps my most used coping technique is peer support such as what i find right here in this very forum. writing out my anxieties of the day helps me focus and find the tools i need to get through any given round, as needed.

i hope this forum serves you as well as it has served me. welcome aboard. i hope you find stabilizing companionship here.
Austin00
Austin00
I will tell you my story I have an Anxiety really bad and also I have PTSD I was through a bad trauma 10 years ago was Mentally arrest by my supervisor due to all that I have really bad anxiety and PTSD dealing with the drama I am on medication for it and I see therapy
Marjiemae
Marjiemae
I take meds and just started online therapy. This forum is great help. I will pass on 1 thing I am working on now: What is in your control and what is NOT. I.E. If you decide to not pay the bills til next week and one is late, that is in your control. If the mail is late arriving and your payment is late, that is NOT in your control. Work on letting go of that which is NOT in your control.
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