Anxiety help
Lately I have been feeling really bad with my depression and anxiety and it's mainly my anxiety... Can some people message me and can people comment on how you cope with calming your anxiety and depression
@Kitten008
PS: NO SUICIDAL THOUGHTS calm down when i'm in a high storey building , reading the bible , praying to Jesus & lastly if i'm at home i would hear the radio or some of my favorite songs on my mobile phone .
@Kitten0086
Hello, ..Anxiety is like that voice inside screaming for answers n keeping your adreniline flowing to much. When i had anxiety attacks in the beggining 15 months ago they took full control of me, including my breathing. At first i couldnt figure out how to take back control so i ended up on hotlines, the ER, and inpatient a couple times. I know how debilitating they can be. After i started to learn what my triggers were, and then I concintrated on forcefully focusing on my deep breathing, and then a different understanding, i figured out how to get control back.
Anxiety is like fear, worry, and trying to hard. Fear/anxiety is like a thief that wants to steal our joy and control us. Once i identified fear as my enemy, i learned to defeat it. Fear sneaks in when our minds are allowed to wander: It comes in and robs us of joy like a criminal, but i found that purposely focusing on something puts the brain in gear so we are now controling our thoughts in a process. Start with closing your eyes and forcfully doing 12-15 deep slow forcful breaths; that simple focus combined with strong effort breathing is now in your control (like a real fight against the enemy "fear"), then after the breathing (which starts to bring you into the present moment) you open your eyes and take a few more breaths and reach out with both hands and grab 2 imaginary hands full of fear, then squeeze both hands into fists, close your eyes, and with each second you count in your head: squeeze tighter, 1, and 2 tighter, and 3 tighter, and keep squeezing tighter, and tighter until your crushing fear up the 15th count, Now open your hands and feel all the sensations as fresh blood rushes back into your hands and you can feel anxiety and fears leaving quickly and pleasurably out of both hands, and out of the tips of each finger, then open your eyes, now you have concintrated on this entire process which left no space in your brain for idle fearfulness. You won! You defeated fear! Grwat job! You chose to evict anxiety! You decieded fear isnt going to rent space in your head any more. You put in the real work took back control from that filthy thief, and your act of focus and breathing like a beast fighting! Youve discovered the true secret to beat anxiety. It took some practice, it took several very desperate sever anxiety attacks for me not to feel silly and go ahead and once i tried it, and went to battle with fear using this process ive been in control and anxiety free for a couple months. Now i have other serious depression related things i still deal with, but i fight off anxiety! 👊
@humorousDay8793 Thank you... your post really helped me to understand my anxiety better
@faithfulLand2395
Your very welcome. I think in many situation we try so hard that we actually cause our own anxiety. Life is a balance, if we get focused on problems and search way to hard to solve problems that cannot be solved, it causes us to try even harder. Its best to let go, and focus on the positive - really focus on it, and get moving. If we pick up everything we feel and every problem we see on our path: it will get to heavy to carry so it can paralyze us. Let all that crap go, throw it back where you found it, dont adopt it all. Leave it on the path and dont even look back at it. It was put there to trap us all. Get moving forward as fast as you can 😊
@Kitten0086
Nice to meet you.
It's hard dealing with all of this. I go movies or window shop. Or cry till I'm not emotionally hurting. Or I eat. Not the greatest but it helps. Sometimes the meds don't do enough.