Anxiety, just like any other emotion, is an abstract phenomena and therefore can be experienced in myriad ways. Psychological symptoms including shortness of breath, shifts in perception, impulsiveness, and inability to focus are only a few possible manifestations. Unfortunately, anxiety extends beyond our psyche and frequently victimizes our physical self too, making us lethargic, inflicting digestive discomforts and even muscle weakness or pain. This is a lot to handle, and I know this from experience, but luckily for us, there are also a lot of techniques that will mitigate, or even eliminate, anxiety:
Exercise - Aerobic exercise is a versatile weapon effective in soothing a diversity of mental disorders. Try to invest 15-20 minutes three to four times a week and judge for yourself. The results are not only anecdotal, exercise has shown to facilitate the formation of new neural connections within a brain region, called hippocampus, essential to memory and commonly attacked by depression.
Face your fears - Deliberately indulging in anxiety generating or apprehensive situations, such as being in large crowds of people, will desensitize your anxious response and eventually the feared situation will provoke little to no anxiety. This will be difficult at first, but if you manage to hold on you will soon recognize the inadequacy of your worries.
Meditate - Meditation will enable your mind to relax and supply you with lucidity necessary for rationalizing and analyzing the very sources of your anxiety, making its deciphering and solving an easy task. On top of that, meditation too, as exercise, causes morphological changes in the brain (thickening of cerebral cortex) that will directly benefit your problematic symptoms.
Drink water - Brain needs glucose to function properly, but all in moderation. Too much of sugar in your diet can promote unwanted mood swings and brain fog, none of which take away from your anxiety. Try to drink water instead of soft drinks as a subtle compromise and feel the benefits.
Patience - Although the above-mentioned techniques will bring you initial relief, their true, full potential can be felt with continuous use. Therefore try to be patient and experiment with any method you choose for a while to see whether it suits you. I know that being patient goes against the rules of anxiety, but try it nonetheless as it is an useful trait.
If you are eager to explore and experiment with techniques outside the scope of this text then go straight ahead, you never know what might work best for you. If that is the case I have included a link to an extended list in the resource section to satisfy your curiosity.
Here is the promised link to an extended list of techniques that will rid you of your anxiety: Anxiolytics - I wish all of you the best and a quick recovery!
Paddy
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