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...

I just wanted to give some of my tips that I use for coping with my anxiety and see if they help you guys^^ I've been dealing with it for a while and I've definitely figured out some of the things that cause it and how to help calm it, though these things may not apply to everyone I still want to try and see if it helps anyone out :)
So first thing that is helpful for coping with your anxiety and finding out what's causing it. Sometimes nothing causes it and it just happens out of no where but a lot of the time there is something that's making it happen. So try your best to find that thing and trust me it will be a lot easier to handle once you do (it'll still be hard and sucky but it'll be better) for me eating certain foods and drinking certain things that make my stomach problems worse causes anxiety for me. Especially caffeine and I know that's a common anxiety inducing thing for others as well. So I try to stay away from those things especially if something that usually makes me nervous is coming up.
One thing I do a lot to help me through anxious days and even bad weeks/months is download pretty simple straight forward games that don't take too much thought to play and don't have much of a story line. I use them as a distraction to help through the bad stuff and it really does help a lot. Since they're usually very simple I have no problem just deleting them when the bad times are over. I also love the sound of rain/my shower so sometimes I will sit in the bathroom with the shower on when in having a panic attack and it helps me get calm a bit more quickly. Or listen to rain sounds on my phone there is a lot of good places to find those one of which is "mynoise", it's a website that has a bunch of different sounds on it to help with relaxation and focus. Also spotify has playlists of rain sounds and there's also YouTube. Sometimes watching asmr mukbang videos is a helpful distraction for me and also it makes me hungry sometimes which kinda deters me from the anxious thoughts. One of the best things I think I'm very lucky to have is my dog, he is very helpful in keeping me happy and helping with anxiety and stressful times. Just spending time with animals can be really helpful to distract you from bad brain days. Even if you only have a fish, just watching them swim around is very relaxing. I think the final most important thing is just be easy on yourself. I've found when I cut myself some slack and try to comfort myself it helps me feel a little less bad. It's still gonna be hard but it's just nice to have your own back. Beating yourself up over something you can't control isn't worth it. I'm sure I have more things I use but I can't think of them and this is long enough already. Feel free to add more in the comments so maybe people can come to this post for help whenever they need ideas to cope with their anxiety.
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I did the dumbest thing today. I charged my earbuds, unplugged the block and put the block in my little bag instead of the earbuds. I wasn't happy about that when I got to the gym. What a dummy!
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Years ago, I won a mirrored armoire from my job. It's in my bedroom but I rarely stand in front of it. Yesterday, I had to have a dexascan done so I had to change into a gown. There was a full length mirror in the changing room. I'm aware that I gained 5 to 7 pounds over the last year from cheating on Keto but I didn't know what it looked like. It was a reality check.
I agree 100%, get rid of the caffeine. It's night and day difference with me. I found this out last night at dinner, when I grabbed one of those water-flavoring squirt containers and squeezed a whole bunch into my water only to find out I had accidentally bought one that contained caffeine. Us anxiety sufferers DO NOT need any more jitters than we already have. I was jittery pretty much the rest of the night and had difficulty sleeping last night. Won't be doing that again.
Ditto for games as well. I'm sure that most are well aware, but if you aren't, there is a drug and it's called Minecraft. Sometimes, after a stressful day at work, there is no better therapy than to come home and chop down trees, mine coal, and plant wheat in Minecraft. Give it a try if you haven't, it's a great distractor.
I also agree with knowing your triggers. If you can identify those things that can trigger your anxious response, you can be better prepared to cope with them. Sometimes the anxiety truly can come from nothing. I can have some days at work that are as low stress as you can get, come home, and still end up with racing thoughts. I'm thinking, geeze, I had just about the lowest-stress day possible, so how can my mind possible go THERE? Well, that's living with anxiety for you. Adapt and overcome.
I understand the days when anxiety comes out if no where though and they are very sucky. I guess the only thing you can do on those days is just whip out your coping mechanisms and hope for it to be over soon.