How can I stop worrying about everything?

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I spend about 80% of the day worrying about something. I'm struggling to find any peace.
Is there any way I can 'train' my brain to stop worrying?
Things I'm currently trying is more exercise and altering my diet to eat healthier. I'm not seeing any improvement yet.

Are you the right age for peri-menopause symptoms to be causing this? If so HRT could be helpful.

Is there a pattern to the worrying? Is it about things you can change or things you can't? How long has it been going on?

I'm 31. The worrying can be about anything really. Mostly about things I can't control.

When did it start? Was/is anyone in your family a 'worrier'?

It's become more of a problem since about a year ago. I've always worried but not to this extent.
My mum has been a worrier for as long as I remember but she seems to cope with it better than I do.
Sometimes it makes me feel somewhat paralysed.

I'm the same. I was diagnosed with GAD and recently ADHD. I've never not worried. It just changes form. I'm never relaxed.

I was like this for as long as i can remeber and would have times where it was worse and "better" (by better i worried all day but didnt have anxiety / panic attacks) I started on sertraline for Anxiety about 3 years ago it has been a life saver for me.
I've tried to come off it twice and within about 6 months I was back to being paralysed with fear every day again so now I've accepted that I need to take it long term in order to have a better quality of life.

I've just been listening to some interesting videos by Dr Jud Brewer on how we can get stuck in an anxiety and worry habit loop and how to overcome it.

He does emphasise that anxiety is not your fault and willpower has been proven to be ineffective at stopping it. So it's useless for people to say 'just stop worrying'.

I have GAD and a kind of OCD going on too. My mum has horrendous anxiety never diagnosed. I think the first thing is to accept you cannot stop the worry. You need to accept it not fight it. You can control how you deal with it though. CBT helped for me and a top up of therapy every couple of years. Basically don’t ignore it but work it through. Go through the scenario and challenge the worry. Write it down. There’s quite a bit of information and worksheets on getselfhelp

Im not sure if this will help you but when im worried i always say out loud to myself "this too will pass" and maybe try some mindfulness techniques

Yes, definitely. You’re right that your brain is ‘trained’ to worry just now - it’s a bad mental habit, and one you learned by seeing your mum most likely. Meditation is a wonderful method to retrain the brain/mind, whilst understanding how your mind works. Also if you are interested in therapy you could try CBT or other forms of therapy.

Meditation to still the mind - search on YouTube or try calm or balance app. Do you enjoy reading? There are lots of boos about anxiety. Or podcasts

I'm like this (hence the username!).
Literally started worrying since I was a small child and still can't quite believe that not everyone spends most of time worrying?? I used to think it was just the normal thing to do 😂