All that helped me over these past year

[Kevin160]

To this day i still get some anxiety and panic attacks so this is to manage atleast , for example currently i still sometimes fear death and my health and as they call it , (fear of fear) but this helped me calm it

Its been six months since i joined this website, and although sometimes i find many triggers and it opened my eyes to many new conditions and things to feel anxious about , but i reached a point where im only anxious when something major happens , and i feel i finally got my life back .. so i thought i might share some of the things that seriously helped get back from the rock bottom that i was in , the mental hell that i thought i would never ever recover from ..,

1) acceptance method such as claire weekes, not fighting the anxiety reduces the energy i waste on trying to find solutions and overthink , just know youre anxious and know your feelings are valid, to me it took ages to realize that my thoughts shouldnt be dismissed and that its better to not try to be calm , face,accept,float,let time pass

2) realizing it gets better, if i were less optimistic i think it would have taken much longer for me to finally feel ok again , or atleast manage my anxiety because i still feel anxious alot but its more controllable and less frequent ..everything needs time

3) breaking the fear cycle, to me it was fear of death, blood pressure,pulse etc after allowing myself to get panic attacks and actually showing myself nothing is happening even if i tried to panic myself i wouldnt feel very scared , everything can be fixed if you face it , if you had stage fright, performing would eventually fix it , it sucks at first hut at the end it works, for me reaching a point where i made peace with whatever happens as long as i know i did my best or atleast i worked hard to fix my problems , even with overthinking you dont feel very stressed and anxious as before

4) breathing techniques, my fear of bp rising lowered with breathing exercises, as deep breathing lowers bp , i felt calmer always and eventually i started using it always , whenever i fear something , it helps me stay in touch with reality if im anxious and everything is going too fast l woth panic attacks and stress i tend to get derealization and feel like im dreaming its scary butit helps knowing im safe

5) support , i never went to a therapist but friends and family sometimes help, i didnt recoeve alot from family but a few friends who i talked about tried their best and im thankful for that, but in support i mainly meant here, i learned most of this here and i mever knew i was doing everything wrong until now

6) knowing that something has to happen for anxiety to start, a trigger is a must, before i thought anxiety happens for nomreason and is constant for no reason , then i realized there is always a trigger , but i just dont always know the exact reason , so knowing that helped me stay calm because i was able to stop the cycle of thinking that im afraid of fear itself, yes i am afraid of fear but there are triggers that make me feel anxious, and once they are not here, im not going to feel anxious, i thought there was no triggers and i just panic for no reason which made me very worried and so pn ..but no sometimes anxiety lasts a while but you will get stronger and it will fade

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Thanks Kevin !