Thoughts and anxiety coping

[granadagirl]

How do u manage with coping when anxiety thoughts/symptoms are high?
Do u have any strategies you can share and what works?

Physical activity can help. Obviously it depends on how able you are but it can help divert the adrenaline that comes with anxiety. I'm not sure I've found anything that works every time, but if I can distract myself for long enough, sometimes the anxiety has waned somewhat.

How bad is your anxiety?

Distraction through something physical that needs a bit of concentration, folding laundry into separate piles for example. Or the "noticing game" as my husband and I call it, something my old counsellor taught me, you look around the room and start naming out loud everything you can see smell hear, it sounds stupid as you're sat there saying "door, air freshener, curtains" etc but it works by taking your kind away from self focus on to external focus so you're no longer thinking about your heart pounding or your fast breathing.

I put some really loud music on which I then sang/danced and cried to. I felt exhausted afterwards but better.

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Absolutely changed my life.