This is part of my Anxiety Insights series. Watch Part 2 here: https://youtu.be/bUrPAxbQkho

"We suffer more in imagination than in reality." —Seneca

Can you pray for me guys

1. Let anxiety be there
2. Kind internal self talk
3. Reframe the anxiety to excitement - focusing on rewards. What can I gain? What can I learn ? How could going through this make me stronger ?
4. Microdose discomfort. Move towards what scares us very gently and slowly.
5. You are not anxious you are experiencing anxiety
6. Emotions are waves, ride the emotions instead of resisting them.
7. Stop waiting for the risk to disappear. Learn how to be with uncertainty.
8. Stop looking for fires to put out that are not yet there.
9. You can never be sure. Adopt a mindset of knowing that you can cope through uncertainty.
10. Hyper awareness from the past, trauma, is not your fault. Work with that part of you are show it you are safe now.
11. Befriend the anxiety
12. Don’t wait until you feel good
13. Don’t avoid the anxiety - don’t avoid the hard stuff
14. Be careful what you feed your brain - what content are you absorbing ?
15. Give your worry a time slot - set a daily worry time
16. Count to 50 with each breath - meditation can feel too overwhelming for some.
17. The wrong people keep you on edge - who is setting off your threat system? Set boundaries.
18. Let the good stuff in
19. Own who you are. You can’t make everyone like you. Focus on the ones that do.
20. Let people in. Open up. Vulnerability and sharing how we feel helps us feel better in the long run. Support helps regulate your nervous system.
21. Rewrite your story. Reframe your story.

Found a job taking care of seniors. My depression evaporated fast! Take Care of someone and you will be healed. Rumination is deadly.

The combination of depression AND anxiety is just soul crushing…

Cure that worked for me
- leaving a toxic household
- doing outdoor things that I genuinely enjoy like traveling
- surrounding myself around people who value my opinion

I don't care what anybody says, smoking marijuana is NOT good for anxiety.

Thank you Doc

From the bottom of my amygdala

My anxiety is so severe. I lost my infant daughter 8/31/23 and have 2 boys with special needs and my mind races. But when triggered I go I to a panic attack at least once weekly that induces vomiting that wont cease with medication.. its absolutely debilitating. I cant continue to live like this making myself sick. Prayers would really help if u pray. Willstart trying these techniques

"Stop putting out fires that aren't burning" really hit home. Catastrophising is one of my great talents.

Finally a channel dedicated to PRACTICAL steps on how to treat anxiety. I feel like there are far too many channels that focus on the symptoms and how they affect you but no practical guide. Thank you!

May God help us overcome Anxiety

1) Physical activities
2) Sunlight exposure
3) Healthy food
4) Focused mindset
5)  Being attentive
6) Good Sleep
7) Drink plenty of water
8) No late night Binge watch
9) Be socially Active
10) Do things that make you feel happy by heart.. 👍🏻

Anxiety is a loop, a habit. Once you realize this thru observation, you overcome. not 100% but significantly enough not to be bothered.

It took me a while to figure out that sometimes what I thought was anxiety was excitement.

Scheduling worry time is the way I finally was able to stop ruminating and catastrophic thinking. It seriously works!!

God I love when people get straight to the point and not over explain everything we have heard a million times before. Thank you. Amazing video with many new points of view.

here's the thing that worked for me (I had/have hypochondria and panic attacks especially for heart attacks or paranoia for cancer and health in general) this was making me say no to anything bc of fear. healing was a journey and it's still going, but for me the game changer was learning to do things scared, it took like a year before I could but doing those things anyways made me gain back areas of my life that anxiety stole away from me. it's a process and the more you learn how to embrace it instead of fighting it and the quicker it will go away. I think of anxiety like a parasite that feeds itself with fear and the more you embrace that fear the less you give value to it. This was my experience hope it can help and encourage at least one person!

Doing it scared is all i know. I want my Ease back.

The energy of excitement it light and lifting. Anxiety is heavy and restrictive. Both are strong affects but they do not feel the same to me.