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Please help with reoccurrence of anxiety

Depression & Anxiety | Last Active: 5 hours ago | Replies (37)
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@yanks950

I feel overwhelmed sometimes from the program I’m in and especially right now with the constant anxiety I have been feeling for almost 2 weeks. My thing about drinking is that I want to cut back but I don’t want to quit. Not because I crave the alcohol but because it’s something I enjoy doing with my friends not feel forced to do.

I plan on looking for support from a therapist.

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diverdown1 | @diverdown1 | 1 day ago

I find that when I am filled with anxiety, my thoughts are usually projecting into the future. I am constantly playing out possible scenarios that have not happened and may never happen. It helps me to practice just staying the present. I do what I have to do today. Today is all I have anyway. I also find that putting my hand on my stomach (usually sitting down) and breathing in through my nose and out through my mouth, paying attention to just breathing is also a way to calm myself down. I am in therapy, have long COVID (3 years now) in an online grad school program and a recovering alcoholic of 7 years. I also take propanolol and it does ease that fight/flight reaction that raises my cortisol. Those are just some suggestions. Breathing and staying in the present can really help. Also, remember that today is it. The past is just a memory and the future is not here yet (at least that we know about in this dimension of space time) 🙂

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