hey I have so much anxiety and fear. tell me something please say.. 🙏
Why does my current anti-anxiety strategy work?
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Personally my way of dealing with anxiety or worry is to take a nice long break in some private place (usually the toilet- stop laughing!), and watching some try not to laugh videos on YouTube. Laughter, in my opinion, is the best way to let your mind wander. After 20 minutes of laughing non-stop (did I mention that I am hopeless at TNTL challenges?), I calm down very much and usually completely forget my worries.
If your strategy works for you, then it’s good.
If your strategy works for you, then it’s good.
When I handle my anxiety that way, my anxiety reduces or dissipates quickly and remains low or nonexistent. Deep, slow breathing is often a solution to anxiety, but whenever I think of doing a breathing technique, I get annoyed with myself, because the breathing technique seems to interrupt my thoughts. Deep breathing feels like one of those “tricks” that don’t work but instead gets me carried away, making the problem seem bigger rather than smaller.
So, why is it that when I try to find some kind of special way to help me with my anxiety, it doesn’t work, but when I almost ignore the anxious feeling, my anxiety lessens? I had thought that giving myself words or actions of sympathy would have been a good solution, but it appears that the opposite is true.
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