Feelings of Anxiety and 4 things you can do to get over them
While it’s true that everyone gets anxious to some degree or another, many people have developed a method of overcoming their anxiety so it doesn’t adversely affect them or their activities.
In this article, I address people with a degree of anxiety that prevents them from being happy or feeling they are fulfilling their set goals.
Anxiety is a condition that challenges your mental and emotional make up. In severe stages it can affect your physical health as well.
Anxiety happens when you are exposed to a degree of stress that takes you out of your comfort zone.
So, some stress in our lives can be quite good to allow us challenge a particular mind set or position which when managed properly gets you to a higher (and better) place in your life journey.
Anxiety can be generalised in which there is worry about a number of things in a way that you know is excessive.
In other cases, it is specific to a social situation (social anxiety), or phobia for places or certain objects, or after a particularly traumatic experience.
First, it’s important to have the mind-set that All Problems CAN Be Solved. This then allows the mind to open up to possible solutions which may directly or indirectly impact on a problem.
Giving up or resorting to drugs, smoking or alcohol as a coping mechanism never improves the situation.
In addition:
Positive Thinking.
Look for optimistic people, listen to them, and read about them and the challenges they face; look for inspirational quotes, think about them and how they affect you.
While new situations, challenges, problems, difficulties and uncertainties affect each of us in different and personal ways, it is the opportunities that they present to us that our response should identify to focus on and take advantage of.
Don’t Isolate
Social support is always a great stress buster.
I can’t tell how many times in the clinic I’ve sat with a tearful patient who has attended with a friend or relative and said to them:’ I’m so glad you are here today’.
Even if you don’t have a large social circle - have one or two people you can relax and just be ‘you’ with.
You don’t have to be the party butterfly but you can certainly be on someone’s phone list.
Help somebody else
It’s very easy to get caught up in your experience and each of us has experiences worth sharing.
Taking your mind off your issues to do something for someone else is rewarding and gives you a sense of contribution to someone else’s success.
No matter how trite it may be, even small favors will help someone else feel better and that also counts a great deal when your help put smiles on the face of other people in spite of the challenges that you may be facing.
As the Holy Book says, there is more happiness in giving than there is in receiving.
Anyone who is anxious to the point that they cannot function at home or work or are deeply unhappy with their life should seek medical advice.
Counselling can be of significant value and treatment may require re-orientation of thinking or other approaches to manage different types of anxiety - including medication.
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