What helped you to overcome or better manager your Anxiety?!


Question: I am so sick and tired of worrying about every little thing. I'm on my mind all day long, "what if this", "what if that". The physical symptoms are the worst. The tightness in the chest, shallow breathing....I've tried the deep breathing, exercise, cut out caffeine yet it's still there. I HATE it and I want it to stop. I will NOT take medication, I've been there, done that. Is there anything that has helped anyone finally be free from worry? I find it so hard to just let go, I try but I'm not good at it. How do I let go of fear and just live!


Answers: I am so sick and tired of worrying about every little thing. I'm on my mind all day long, "what if this", "what if that". The physical symptoms are the worst. The tightness in the chest, shallow breathing....I've tried the deep breathing, exercise, cut out caffeine yet it's still there. I HATE it and I want it to stop. I will NOT take medication, I've been there, done that. Is there anything that has helped anyone finally be free from worry? I find it so hard to just let go, I try but I'm not good at it. How do I let go of fear and just live!

Medication is seriously a last resort. I am glad you have chosen to not take drugs. Do not think you can just a take a happy pill and all will be well. Probably about the last thing you want to do is get addicted to xannax or alprazolam or some other potent anti-anxiety medicine. Getting off such drugs can be more of a nightmare than dealing with the anxiety itself.

Basically the root cause of anxiety often has to do with a deep seated fear or worry that got conditioned into you from your childhood and is now manifesting in adulthood. Do not give up on the meditation and breathing exercises, as they can help. But what you should really be looking into is seeing a cognitive therapist who specializes in treating anxiety and axiety related conditions. I'm not talking about seeing a generic councellor, I mean see a specialist.

Treating anxiety, really is a mental game and it takes a very umm zealous attitude to play. On top of taking care of yourself through general diet and exercise, work on your thinking. A negative attitude is probably just as big of an issue as the anxiety itself and getting over it can be just as hard. Self talk will help you. Make sure you recognize negative thoughts and when you do correct yourself. Journaling may help you in recognizing patterns of negative thinking.

Just to make sure, you might want to contact your doctor and get some lab work done just to make sure this condition is not related to a problem with your hypothalamus or neurotransmitter levels.

If you do take medications, take the minimal amount and only do it as part of greater therapy with a specialist with intentions getting off them at a certain point.

well honestly....medication will help.
zoloft is often prescribed for anxiety. probably the best antidepressant for anxiety is that...

go to therapy, i'm sure that will help....
but seriously....don't be stubborn....meds are used
to balance the imbalance in your brain...
diets won't help that at all.

Green tea is supposed to be helpful, as is chamomile and make sure you are getting a healthy diet and exercise. Also I heard that acupuncture is meant to be really good, but its quite expensive and you may not like needles.
Aside from that, medication or therapy is your only other option really. I don't know why everyone is so against medication, these days the medications are better than what they used to be. I'm on meds now and while it's not helping me right at this moment (gotta give it time to kick in) i know that it will help (ive been on it before). If you've tried meds and they didn't work for you, try another one. Trust me, I know exactly how you feel and i have tried the whole exercise/healthy diet thing too and nothing is working. medication is not the enemy.

I've been there, done that, and am still there!!!!! I know it's so hard. I am trying to use some CBT, by myself, and with a therapist, but there are so many things that just aren't changing. I'm on clonazepam, and trileptal, and have been on many other meds before.. You may just need a low dose of a benzo, while you work with a therapist. CBT, is really a good thing to help with anxiety, and this distorted over thinking. It just takes a lot of persistance. A good book to help with this is The feeling good hand book by Dr. Burns. Give it a try.

I've been on medication for those symptoms and I was really happy with it. I went off of it simply because my prescription ran out and I decided not to take anything again since I was already off of it.

What I'm trying to do is to write down my thoughts and worries.Anything that comes to my mind that I loathe or obsess about.

I lay in bed with insomnia worrying, so even if it's 3am wake up and write it down! Don't worry about being thorough...I think the process of letting it go helps.
I have someone that I can talk with, whom I find better than a therapist, but if you don't have that try out a professional and see how that goes.

I empathize with you and I hope you can work this out! Best of luck!

Wow, this is surreal, I had this conversation with someone just the other day. They are a "born worrier" I am definitely not. Before anyone thinks I have had a "perfect" life, believe me I have not. My philosophy is, and it was purely subconscious, that no amount of worrying in the world would make any difference whatsoever to what happens in my life. When my kids went out would they be mugged/killed, would some maniacal driver run his/her car into mine, would the thunder storm take off the roof of my house? Who gives a s**t unless it happens? Of course if my kid was late home I worried, if some nut ran into my car I phoned the insurance, ditto with my roof, but I point blank refuse to spend my precious time on earth worrying about "what ifs".I will deal with what life actually throws my way.
Simplistic but true, were you to be told you had 3mnths to live would you spend it worrying? Would it create world peace, would it make one iota of difference to society, would it prevent one crime, would it save one life? Of course not, you just aren't that important. We are all fearful, do not equate lack of worry with lack of care, you need to differentiate between the two. Does worrying about what may happen prevent it from happening? The most important person in your life is you, you are the one who is allowing anxiety to dictate your life and that of those around you, what a waste of energy!. What a waste of a life based on "what ifs". I have two maxims which I live by....I do not bother trouble, till trouble bothers me, and my favourite, which those who really know me will recognise......Worry, is the interest paid on a debt you do not yet owe. Let go.... live your one and only precious life. You have no fears but those you choose to let govern your life.
Hope this has helped, though I doubt it. Fears give you a "raison detre" for your existence, but ultimately they rule you.
Live your life x
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