I Have Anxiety

Anxiety is a natural response to stressful situations. There will be people who say, it will be alright or to stay strong. I will not say that, because neither really makes sense to me. I mean, real problems don't go away for no real reason, and while you're anxious, it can be hard to just 'stay strong'.

I will tell you the thing that works for me though, if and when I feel anxiety overwhelming me.

List out the number of things bothering you, when you can. And write down what you can do about each.

[b]It sounds silly, but here's the reason it helps.[/b] When you have a number of things going wrong in life, it never appears clearly as individual things... it all just clusters up, and your mind tells you "everything is going to hell".

And that will keep feeding your anxiety. And because you have anxiety now, that cluster of things will seem bigger and more impossible to tackle. It's a neat little vicious cycle of you feeling like crap.

When you list them out, and write down what you can do about each... your mind suddenly loses that vague, shapeless dread it's using against you.

The problems still exist, sure. But you'll feel a bit more in control of things, hopefully after that. Less anxious, fingers crossed.