How do you overcome anxiety?

[ThatTruth777]

gotta face it otherwise it can become an albatross that hounds you

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

Xanax

 

[Benefited]

1.Know yourself,if your astrology says you are prone to be an anxious person,your going to have to work really hard and reprogram your dna.
2. Just get better at being social,validation alone may be enough to cure you ,if your anxiety comes from insecurity made up in your mind.
3.Realize that its all in your gut,I tried to tell you nikkas the brain gets too much credit,its all about your gut. The gut is the brains of the operation when it comes to this. Pay attention to your stomach when you feel anxious. Nervous stomach=nervous brain,nervous tongue,nervous body movements.
4. I have two new theories,one being sex therapy using masterbation,and the other being electric shock therapy. I'm starting the electric shock reprogramming today,I just got my electric dog collar in the mail. We will see what I find out through the data

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[Vandelay]

Depends on the type of anxiety.

 

[Fanservice]

The only thing that makes me anxious is the thought of having another anxiety attack.

Nofap for 7+ days, weight lifting, meditating and playing puzzle games help a bit. Haven’t tried therapy but I feel like I should someday

 

[yyy]

A lot of good responses in here. As someone who had anxiety in certain situations but overcame it, and who has subsequently taken psychiatry class I'll give you my current beliefs. Confront the source of your anxiety.

To make a long story short, the anxiety you feel is the result of a biochemical and neurophysiological process in your brain. At some point you started avoiding something that you feared. This helped to quell the anxiety in the moment, but by avoiding the source of your anxiety your anxiety grew. Right now, CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) has proven highly helpful for people with anxiety. It works by exposing people to the source of their anxiety. Initially, it is hard. But if you stick with it, what will happen is that you train your brain to not activate its fight or flight response system to whatever is your source of anxiety.

Anxiety becomes maladaptive when it occurs with an intensity that is out of proportion to the threat, persists after the threat has resolved, becomes generalized to bending situations, or occurs int the complete absence of a stressor. The mental disorders known as “anxiety dosprders” are generally considered to be examples of ineffective adaptions to naturally occurring threats including dangers from predators, social conflicts, germs and dishes, and otters environmental hazards.

Fear and anxiety are normal biological processes, but for people with an anxiety disorder their normal brain neurophysiology is defective. You should have anxious feelings around certain actions. Jumping out of a plane, walking on the ledge of a really tall building or walking through a jungle filled with venomous snakes. But if you have feelings of anxiety in regular day-to-day activities that means that your brain isn't functioning properly.

Here's what you do. The fear part of the brain is a slave to the conscious part of the brain. If you tell yourself that there is nothing to be afraid of and you expose yourself to the source of your anxiety eventually you will overcome it. Don't ruminate on the source of your anxiety. Face it, endure it and overcome it. In short, develop courage...

So courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear. Fear, unlike anxiety, has a definite object which can be faced, analyzed, attacked and endured. So often the object of our fear is fear itself. “Nothing,” says Seneca, “is terrible in things except fear itself.” And Epictetus says, “for it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.” Courage can take the fear produced by a definite object into itself and thereby conquer the fear involved. “Courage,” says Paul Tillich, “is self-affirmation ‘in spite of’… that which tends to hinder the self from affirming itself.” It is self-affirmation in spite of death and non-being. He who acts courageously takes the fear of death into his self affirmation and acts upon it. This courageous self affirmation which is a sure remedy for fear is not to be confused with “selfishness.” Self-affirmation includes the right self-love and the right love of others. Erich Fromm has pointed out in convincing terms that the right self-love and the right love of others are interdependent, and that selfishness and the abuse of others are equally interdependent.

Courage is that quality which enables us to stand up to any fear. It is the final determination not to be stopped or overwhelmed by any object, however frightful it may be. Many of our fears are very real, and not mere snakes under the carpet. Trouble is a reality in this strange medley of life and dangers lurk beneath our every move. Accidents do occur and bad health stands as an ever threatening possibility. Death is a stark, grim and inevitable reality. We do ourselves and our neighbors a great disservice when we try to prove that there is nothing in this world to be frightened at. In this conundrum of life evil and pain are inescapable realities. The things that make for fear are close to all of us. These forces that threaten to negate life must be met and challenged by a daring “courage to be.” Courage is the power of life to affirm itself in spite of its ambiguities. It involves the exercise of a great and creative will. It is a bottomless resourcefulness that ultimately enables a man to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. Courage is the inner determination to go on in spite of obstacles and frightening situations; cowardice is the submissive surrender to the forces of circumstance. The man of courage never loses the zest for living even though his life situation is zestless; the cowardly man, overwhelmed by the uncertainties of life, loses the will to live. Courage breeds creative self‐affirmation; cowardice breeds destructive self-abnegation. Courage faces fear and thereby masters it; cowardice represses fear and is thereby mastered by it. So we must constantly build dykes of courage to ward off the flood of fear.

 

[GoAggieGo.]

gotta face it otherwise it can become an albatross that hounds you

This the hard part, but you’re right.

The more you run, the heavier that burden gets. That shyt will handicap you like a mafucca.

 

[AJD]

I used to care bout little stupid shyt when I was younger (I think most of us did to an extent) but practicting all these things over the years has effectively reduced the fukks i give to 0


-Meditation before bed
-Excercise, (particularly running or squats)
-Weed
-Stop beating off (if you cant stop, limit that shyt to 1x a week)
-Fish oil for inflammation
-Stay hydrated

Goes for anybody reading, even if you got very minor anxiety, incorporate all these things and you'll notice a difference within 2 weeks GUARANTEED. Thank me later.

 

[RareHunter]

Its my biggest challenge in my life.

I know I can go for bigger and greater things in my lfe but my anxiety stops me dead in my tracks...

How do you deal with it?

Stop saying u have anxiety and looking at it as a problem. Just except it. Anxiety is normal. When u feel it in situations just tell yourself u don’t have a problem. Keep truckin and it’ll be gone. Real Ish breh.

 

[ATownD19]

Its my biggest challenge in my life.

I know I can go for bigger and greater things in my lfe but my anxiety stops me dead in my tracks...

How do you deal with it?

Take drugs





















Legal ones

 

[BaldingSoHard]

No jacking off worked wonders for me.

 

[ZoeGod]

Meditation can help.

 

[Adeptus Astartes]

I don't know if you fukk with psychedelics, but I recommend eating psilocybin mushrooms once a year or two. I take 3 grams and take a walk in the woods for the day with a jug of water and a notebook. I meditate and write, draw or whatever. Kill my ego and reset. Clears out the proverbial cobwebs.

 

[Hungerpain]

1.)Exercise.
2.) Go head first into what's making you anxious.

 

[BelowTheMasonDixon]

Its my biggest challenge in my life.

I know I can go for bigger and greater things in my lfe but my anxiety stops me dead in my tracks...

How do you deal with it?

Celexa has worked wonders. Now i'm trying to ween my way off this shyt. but what do you think is the source of your anxiety?