How can I fight anxiety?

September 7, 7:51 PMDC Health Care ExaminerPanagiota Kalamaras

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Do you frequently experience tense muscles, trembling, nausea, heart palpitations, backaches, or numbness of the body, and a general feeling of fear or frustration? If so, chances are you’re experiencing anxiety.

Anxiety is our body’s response to an apprehensive feeling or event. Anxiety develops from the way in which we interpret a given situation and therefore directly determines whether a particular situation is deemed worthy of our anxiety.  The good news about this is that we can control anxiety and minimize its occurrence by simply changing the way we think about things that would normally cause us stress.  Here is a 4 step process of what you should do if you’re suffering from this very common problem:

1.   Identify what it is that causes your anxiety. Are you overworked? Do you frequently rush to meet deadlines?  Do you neglect your basic needs? Are you often a culprit of negative self talk? Identify the cause and move to step 2.

2.   Figure out the cause of the cause. Why are you overworked? Why are you rushing to meet those deadlines and why do you neglect your basic needs? Why do you constantly think of the negatives? Pinpoint exactly what it is that is causing the factor that is triggering your anxiety.

3.    Make a list of how you can eliminate the trigger(s). Do you need to better prioritize your time by making an hourly schedule of things to do and hold yourself to it? Do you have to schedule a time for your husband to watch the kids while you go get a nice deserving workout after work? Do you need to work on getting rid of fears that might be causing unnecessarily stressful negative appraisals of challenging or high-pressure situations?

4.    Attack the trigger. Figure out what it is that will help prevent the trigger from rearing its ugly head. A personal electronic device that is fun to use and allows you to make a manageable daily schedule, a spending plan that is laid out on an excel spreadsheet and closely followed so that you can better manage your finances.   Perhaps your solution is to replace negative self talk with coping self talk. Whenever you start to think that you can’t handle a situation attack the trigger by turning this negative thought into a positive one. Make a list of positive thoughts every day and try to repeat them to yourself each time you have the negative thought.

 Sometimes, we cannot solve our problem alone.  We cannot figure out the cause for our anxiety because the problem is much deeper and we can’t find ourselves able to do any of the above. If you fit under this category, it is in your greatest interest to meet with a therapist who can help you to uncover all of the unknowns and put you on a path towards recovery and an anxiety-free life.  Good luck!