Things that help with anxiety?????????
lol I’m fine

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Things that help with anxiety????????? 
lol I’m fine

Karli · Answer

Humming Bee Breath: Looks kinda nuts, but very simple to do. Requires very little effort and is super effective, especially if you experience sensory overload with your anxiety. You basically cover your eyes, plug your ears, and hum each breath. This is a technique used during childbirth, so that’s saying a lot! Hope you get some peace soon 💛

Emma · Answer

l-theanine: IM NOT A DOCTOR so do your own research! But this amino acid genuinely changed my life when I started dealing with postpartum anxiety. I take one capsule in the morning with my coffee (it really smooths out the caffeine jitters) and another about an hour before bed.

Mandy · Answer

Various Apps: Headspace, Calm, Insight Timer, Finch

Julia Rotstein · Answer

prozac!

Gail · Answer

Petting a dog: Bonus if they're yours

Tori Kornick · Answer

Sleeping with your cats: Feeling the breath patterns of my cat Leo while he lays by my side, back or chest lulls me to sleep 💤 And then my other cat George will nuzzle into the crook of my bent legs, and I’m in cat heaven 🐱

Warning: you may get woken up early, but it’s worth it.

Natasha Feldman · Answer

Duloxetine (Cymbalta): An OCD essential!

Dylan · Answer

send your besties a video of yourself dancing: give the people what they want

Dylan · Answer

Legs up the wall: i love a restorative inversion! the most delicious thing to do after a day spent on your feet, after a long-haul flight, or just for a calming evening ritual.

activate the parasympathetic nervous system, improve circulation, lymphatic drainage, reduce swelling/pain, relieve tension.

so simple, so good.

Dylan · Answer

Somatics: Learning about and practising somatics has truly changed my mind-body connection. There are so many simple movements you can do to help release stagnant energy, ground yourself, and regulate your nervous system.

This is my friend & teacher's website, but there are many offerings out there to explore, both in person and from your home.

Sending so much love <3

Dylan · Answer

Silly little mental health walks in nature: Just left the house for the first time in 9 days to go for a silly lil mental health walk in nature and found myself bawling my eyes out at this rainbow lorikeet just hanging outside his lil tree stump house. We stared into each other's eyes for a good 10 mins until he decided that was enough and retreated back inside his lil tree hole.

Dylan · Answer

Giving your cat 500 forehead kisses: i don't make the rules, this is just a legal requirement in my house.

Olga K. · Answer

Retroid Pocket Classic Handheld: Can’t leave the house without this little guy. Helps lower my anxiety and stress, as well as access the whimsy of playing FFIX whenever I want. After my cat passed away, in an unexpected and traumatic way, playing Tetris on the retroid helped me process some of that trauma and kept me sane for months following her death.

Catherine Davis · Answer

Toss Your Phone Into the Sea: A girl can dream

Analisa Burns · Answer

Rocky Raccoon (Charlie Parr): Rocky raccoon

Analisa Burns · Answer

Bach Rescue Pastilles for stress relief: only baddies get stressed

Evan McAvenia · Answer

bach rescue pastilles, black currant: kind of medicine, kind of candy, always on hand.

faye · Answer

weighted blanket, tea, Arrival of the Birds by the Cinematic Orchestra: (It’s from the soundtrack of Theory of Everything but I discovered it through Adam Rippon’s skating routine like 3 Olympics ago and it’s been chillout music ever since.

…also the link doesn’t want to give me a preview so have a funny.

Other good anxiolytics: I’m a big fan of most Novo Amor,and  Killer and the Sound (mash up by Noah Gundersen and Phoebe Bridgers) has a permanent place on my CHILL OUT playlist.

I mean, I also recommend anti-anxiety medication and therapy! but that’s probably not what you’re asking for.

oh and: if you find this kind of thing doesn’t help at all, you may need be a fight vs freeze kinda person and be low on the followthrough of doing something: try dancing around the kitchen or aggressive scrubbing or some other short not intimidating cardio. Pretend the thing making you anxious is a pillow (or bread dough if you bake) and punch it. (I like dancing.)

Zoe · Answer

Join a Choir: cannot recommend enough! singing is so good for you

Jules · Answer

Brad Yates Tapping Videos: looks like an accountant but makes you cry. enjoy

Chiara · Answer

Stopping and doing nothing: #7 on this list, but also in one of her books Brené writes about working in a restaurant and reaching her limit and how sometimes the best thing, the only thing you can do is let yourself completely stop and do nothing for a little bit. “Don’t just do something, stand there!” sometimes I feel like I have to do all of the coping mechanism / therapy homework things but that feeling can just add to the anxiety; sometimes it’s a major reset to just be like “my job is to literally do nothing for the next 15 min” and give yourself that permission and space. sorry you’re going through this, it can feel so impossibly hard but you’re not alone! ❤️

Rachel · Answer

2 Breathing Techniques That Reduce Anxiety (Doctor Demo): For some reason, this video helps me more than I expected. Thank you Youtube algorithm. He shows how simple breathing techniques slow down his heart rate on the EKG. Simple. He also has a nice smile so I guess that’s an added benefit (not sure if it helps but it doesn’t hurt).

devan · Answer

Astragalus (Wildcrafted): Astragalus will absolutely blow your mind when taken frequently. I run through this so quickly but it’s truly the fountain of youth.  There’s very little it doesn’t do!

E_C_B · Answer

Yoga Nidra: I’m a yoga teacher and anxiety sufferer. Yoga Nidra is a practice I highly recommend as a way to calmly step outside of your symptoms and witness them rather than be caught up in them. It’s a guided meditation; all you have to do is lie on the floor and listen to the voice leading the session. Lots of free yoga nidra meditations are available on YouTube.

Also co-sign the recommendations on intentional breathing and medication. They’ve all been critically important for keeping my anxiety at bay. You’re doing great!!

Jamie · Answer

great british baking show for inner peace: reliably does the trick! just really brings me back to earth when i need to calm down and reset my brain. works best with a little treat in hand so you can play along ;)

Aya C · Answer

Sleep Rhythm: Kumbhaka (Tamara Levitt): This is my favorite meditation when I’m really spiraling. I find it hard enough that I can’t think of everything else.

It’s basically a 4-4-8 breathing pranayama from Ashtanga Yoga with three tempos you can select.

Spines, Flicks, and Wax · Answer

Using Brain Dumping to Manage Anxiety and Over Thinking: I first learned about this through comedian Ali Wong (I believe it was her book?) but this article gives in-depth info on brain-dumping and three different ways to do it.

Mo · Answer

Face ice bath: Basically hold your breath and dip your face in an ice water for about 30 seconds. Helps activate vagus response and triggers vasoconstriction which will reduce stress and help to cool you down (not to mention putting your face in ice will just generally cool you). can also be done by putting ice water in a zip lock bag and putting it over your face if you want less mess.

Mo · Answer

Double inhale: Basically take a deep breath in, then do a second quick inhale, finally slowly exhale all the breath out, repeat a few times. It helps increase your oxygen levels and decreases CO2, and helps to push you out of fight-or-flight

Soleil · Answer

crying: I once heard in response to heartbreak, one must “cry it out, scream it out, poop it out, barf it out.” essentially you gotta let it move through you. This mindset has also helped me a lot with anxiety at times- if it’s not too unbearable, let yourself feel it, let yourself cry.

Some other tried and true methods:

Yoga with Adrienne’s yoga for anxiety videos. Any will do

Tara Brach has gotten me through some dark times. She has guided meditations and talks. The way she breaks down thought patterns helps me remember that my anxious thoughts aren’t exactly unique and then you can separate the self from the anxiety, or something like that.

Magnesi-Om from moon juice if you need an immediate fix

A comfort movie that keeps you off your phone. 10 Things I Hate about You is one of my favs.

Doing something with your hands. Knitting is huge for my anxiety

Put your face in really cold water or drink really hot tea

Hope something on this list is helpful or new to you! tbh that spiky mat someone else recommended looks promising

Aya C · Answer

sleep enough, meds, exercise, go outside, eat a frog: Things that help my anxiety:

Make sure I am sleep enough. When I’m tired, I lack emotional resilience.

Meds. For  me, low dose citalopram helped me rebuild neural pathways that were not all panic driven. After five years on it, I’m taking a break but it’s wonderful to know I have this as an option.

Hard exercise. I love lifting—I get really in the moment, in the technique, in my body and in working so hard I concentrate only on what I’m doing. Afterwards, I have endorphins and the knowledge that I did something good.

Go outside. Often that means listening to an audiobook while weeding or going on a walk. Movement+outside helps.

Do something on my mental checklist, especially if I’m dreading it. My mom calls this “eating the frog”. Reducing the mental churning just a bit helps.

Aya C · Answer

Lifting weights changes your body, life and mind: Lifting weights will make you feel capable, in and out of the gym. It will make your bones strong. It will make your mind more peaceful. It will make you value your body beyond its aesthetic. It’s a beautiful thing to do for yourself and only takes a few hours a week.

I use the Hevy App, linked here, to go in with a plan and track my progress.

Daniel Menegaz · Answer

Escitalopram (oral route): 10mg daily with or without food

chio · Answer

peppermint essential oil: i usually keep this in my car or my purse and find that it helps me regulate my nervous system if i put a little bit on my wrists or just smell it

Andrea · Answer

tapping (emotional freedom technique): A simple, free technique that can have an immediate effect in reducing anxiety. This is a nice how-to.

rory · Answer

hard hard hard workout: find a CrossFit gym or a HIIT gym and purge

working out has become the number one anxiety management tool in my life (along w eating well and reading a lot). someone once said to me “would you rather have 24 shitty hours or 1 shitty hour and 23 pretty great hours?”

it can be annoying but it’s worth it every time

Things that help with anxiety????????? lol I’m fine

Humming Bee Breath

l-theanine

Various Apps

prozac!

Petting a dog

Sleeping with your cats

Duloxetine (Cymbalta)

send your besties a video of yourself dancing

Legs up the wall

Somatics

Silly little mental health walks in nature

Giving your cat 500 forehead kisses

Retroid Pocket Classic Handheld

Toss Your Phone Into the Sea

Rocky Raccoon (Charlie Parr)

Bach Rescue Pastilles for stress relief

bach rescue pastilles, black currant

weighted blanket, tea, Arrival of the Birds by the Cinematic Orchestra

Join a Choir

Brad Yates Tapping Videos

Stopping and doing nothing

2 Breathing Techniques That Reduce Anxiety (Doctor Demo)

Astragalus (Wildcrafted)

Yoga Nidra

great british baking show for inner peace

Sleep Rhythm: Kumbhaka (Tamara Levitt)

Using Brain Dumping to Manage Anxiety and Over Thinking

Face ice bath

Double inhale

crying

sleep enough, meds, exercise, go outside, eat a frog

Lifting weights changes your body, life and mind

Escitalopram (oral route)

peppermint essential oil

tapping (emotional freedom technique)

hard hard hard workout