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Managing Your Anxiety

4 June 2021

Rebecca Pena

Anxiety can be a significant problem for millions of people. Unfortunately, it can be possible for the effects of anxiety to make it difficult or even impossible for individuals to effectively handle their daily obligations and responsibilities. Learning to manage this condition can be a challenge, but it can be the best option for significantly improving your quality of life.  

Manage Your Physical Health Needs Simultaneously 

Individuals will often fail to appreciate the need to manage their physical health needs. Unfortunately, a person that is not eating nutritious meals, getting enough sleep and regularly exercising can find that their anxiety symptoms are actually made worse. Making it a point to ensure that you are meeting all of these basic needs can go a long way in helping you to gain better control over your anxiety. When a person is experiencing severe anxiety problems, they may struggle with meeting these basic needs, which can further worsen their symptoms. Keeping a health journal can be a proactive way of monitoring these needs to make sure that you avoid letting the anxiety cause you to neglect your overall health.

Try Activities That Help Lessen Your Anxiety

When you are experiencing an anxiety attack, it can be useful to have a list of activities that you can do that will help to reset your mental state. For some individuals, this may involve exercising or engaging in other types of physical activities while others may find writing or art to be therapeutic in these moments. Sadly, there will be times when you experience an anxiety attack where it is not possible for you to use these activities. In these instances, learning breathing exercises can help you with reducing your anxiety until you have the time or privacy that you need to fully recenter yourself.

Seek Professional Anxiety Treatments

For those that have chronic anxiety problems, it is a reality that this condition may be beyond their abilities to manage on their own. Luckily, there are professionals that specialize in providing their patients with anxiety treatments that can help them with learning the skills needed to manage this emotional challenge as well as providing medications. Therapy is also often a key component of these treatments as it can be useful to learn more about the particular causes for your anxiety problems. You'll better understand your triggers or the bad habits that you may have used to cope with anxiety.

To learn more about anxiety treatment, contact services like Dr. Lynn Fraley LCPC.

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