Note: if you rarely ever experience anxiety, leave this thread. No one cares that you don't have anxiety.

For those of you who have anxiety, how do you deal with it? What sort of techniques do you use that you find helpful? What triggers your anxiety the most?

This is a safe-haven for people with anxiety disorders/issues, so feel free to say whatever.

I have no idea how I deal with it since I don't know how to deal with it sadly

Yes. When I speak in public, or I have a job interview, I get really anxious and nauseous. I try to do deep breathing . But it doesn't help as much. I refuse to take anxiolitic meds however.

Start counting from 100, subtracting 3 then adding 1 (100, 97, 98, 95, etc). That always helps me. In stressful situations, I always remind myself that in 30 minutes, it'll be as if it never happened and I'll go on living my life. Anxiety is hard

I got anxious because I had to read out my history essay to the class and my voice started shaking and I couldn't even stop it. Also before my German speaking exam I was practically vibrating as I waited outside.

EDIT: don't even get me started on taking a train.

I try to listen to music or talk it out with my friends. If I can't do either I just try to think about positive things and daydream a bit. When I get anxious in situations that require immediate action I take deep breaths and try to plan out everything I will do next as fast as possible so I can feel secure in what I am doing. can either get anxiety from specific things I know I will soon face, but sometimes I get anxiety from just thinking about life and how my future will turn out, which is bad since I'm still so young

I usually just cry until I feel nothing and then go on with my day.

This always happens to me.

Same.

I don't know... Some days I can control my anxiety and other days it is overwhelming. It depends on the day I guess. When I drink alcohol it goes away but that's not the answer and I don't want to be an alcoholic. When I was on anxiety medication I didn't like the effects so I stopped taking them.

Not being in control of what I have to do makes me anxious, and I often have the start of panic attacks but I think to myself to calm down and try to breathe slower, lying down, listening to a song I like, eating (though this is wrong, eating to calm down my anxiety is wrong!) usually help.

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I have to present stuff in class & I get really anxious. My voice starts shaking so bad

I get really bad social anxiety Like to the point where it's almost a fear in some situations. Last week I joined this strongman bootcamp with me older brother and for days beforehand I could not sleep or eat. I had so much anxiety, I could barely even workout the days before Once the session was over (it only lasted an hour) I was feeling fine again.

It flares up even when I'm just meeting up with some old friends. I'll just start regretting having said yes and looking for excuses.

I know it sounds stupid but I think I'm more scared of rejection. Like if I say something stupid or if I'm not as good as the other people.

I cope with it by reminding myself of the reality of the situation. Like say for an interview, I just remind myself of how great I am and why they should employ me It's worked nearly 100% of the time and I have been offered a job to nearly all the interviews I've been to. Or say like with the strongman thing I attended. I just reminded myself of how good it will be for me and how everyone had to start somewhere. Of course I was the worst person there But I intend in going again tomorrow. Or when I've been invited out, I remind myself that I will only regret not going out if I drop out. Once I actually leave the house and meet up with everyone I forget all about it and I'm fine again.

I should really get it diagnosed by a doctor sometime and see if they can help but that's how I have learnt to deal with it.

I don't know how I deal with it tbh.

Social situations, not being in complete control, and impending deadlines cause my anxiety.

When I have anxiety I look at this pic

I honestly don't know how to deal with it. I usually start to shake and my voice cracks when I try to speak and start to panic. It usually acts up when I'm at I'm around people I don't know, school presentations, deadlines for projects or papers, just a lot of things.

I do too. thinking about my future scares me so much.

Honestly, I just try to ignore it, as if it doesn't exist. It works more often than it doesn't, though there are times where I can't ignore it and have to force myself to do something else to occupy my mind.

Anxiety disorders suck.

For the most part I've grown out of it. I still hate doing presentations or just speaking up in front of class but even that's improved so much in the last couple of years.

I think the key to overcoming anxiety is putting yourself in situations you don't feel comfortable in and really pushing yourself out of your comfort zone.

And yes alcohol helps