Anxiety issues. Help me with that!

1. Anxiety, in my experience, wasn’t a disease. It was a feeling that I had never been equipped to manage. That’s exactly what I tell people these days when asked about my anxiety. I never “cured” it, I’ve learned how to “manage” it. There wasn’t anything actually wrong with me, at least not in the “I have cancer and I’m slowly fading with each day that passes” kind of sense. I was just experiencing elevated levels of anxiety for the first time and I had no idea how to manage. For most of my life, I had been living in a reactive state. If something felt off, I went to the doctor and blasted it away with the best that modern medicine had to offer. It was time to get proactive. Looking at my lifestyle, I could see why I felt like an anxious, nervous wreck. The daily activities of my life had been filling up my anxiety bucket, and I had been doing nothing to drain it. That’s how I view managing my anxiety these days - like a bucket. If I go for a few days eating like shit and neglecting to exercise, I literally feel my bucket overflowing with anxiety. When I spend a few days practicing healthy behaviors, I return to a balanced state. My bucket becomes half full, so-to-speak. Right where it belongs. 2. Stop fighting the feeling. When you get angry or sad, what do you do? Do you try to fight the feeling with all your might, or do you recognize them for what they are - feelings - and allow them to slowly fade? The problem with anxiety is that it’s a feeling no one enjoys experiencing. The nervousness. The on-edge-ness. The worry. The fear. The impending doom. I don’t blame you for not wanting to feel like that. But that doesn’t mean you should fight it. It took me a painfully long time to learn this. Anxiety, isolated from other issues, isn’t anything to worry about. It’s actually a good thing we have it. It spikes our adrenaline when we need it most - running from bears, hunting for food, and other things of the sorts. In today’s world, we don’t have much of a need for those feelings. Outside of fighting and war, the majority of people could do without them. So when we experience them, we struggle. We fight back. We resist. It’s the resistance of anxiety that makes it stronger. It allows your anxiety to grow. It adds to your bucket. But if you let go, you allow yourself to be free. Feel the feeling of anxiety. Recognize it’s just a feeling. And move on. “Oh, I’m feeling anxious. I don’t like it, but it’s not going to hurt me.” This is what I practiced doing for several months, even after making all the lifestyle changes I talked about earlier. Eventually, I got to a point where a month had gone by and I hadn’t felt overly anxious. No more panic attacks. No more night terrors. No more feeling like crap. I remember saying to myself, “Hm, that’s weird. I can’t believe I haven’t felt like that in a while.”

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