Anyone have high anxiety? What do you do to help?

Thank you. I will try to get it on my computer tomorrow, and will check
your message on better sleep 💤 thank you 😊

Yes Reiki is nice. Also acupuncture. I like Natural remedies. I also do a relaxing
Meditation tape. I listen to what the person tells me to do for about 1/2hr. It gave me a wonderful floaty feeling. All of these help me get through each day for many years . I’m 82.
I also had Hyperthyroidism many years ago and got very shaky,sweaty anxious,hot, and fast heart rate. That was cured.,but many illnesses can give you panic and anxiety I was told by doctors.

My thoughts are that staying calm revolves around a lot of things. Certainly diet, lifestyle & exercise are at the top of the list. Diet - reduce sugars as much as possible, eat a lot more fruits and vegetables. Green leafy vegetables are a great source of protein. Lifestyle - stop or reduce drinking and smoking if you can. Exercise - to include both strength, aerobics and stretching if possible. Prescription meds from my experience solve one problem and then create a new one. I do use CBD oil on "anxious" days - go slow at first as different people react differently to supplements. CBD does really calm me down when needed.

You can find meds that will help. I’ve gone with various meds that have worked 15 years but then stop working so you have to try another. I’m on propranolol right now. I started on lexapro and went to various other meds that kept me healthy away from extreme depression.

@stsopoci
I am GAD and have been my whole life. General anxiety disorder. It gets to a high anxiety level and then softens when you take meds .

@gunshy
I am in the exact position. Been on .5 or dloz for five months, Instead of making me calm it makes me sick and jittery. My doc wants to to cross taper to liquid which scares me. Due to how difficult splitting a ,5 pill ins quarters equally, it looks as if I will have to start with.25 tablet and ..25 liquid and think that much change t one time will be a shock to my body and i will feel terrible? I thought of taking .125 twice times a day log with the .25 tablet and wondered it that would lessen the diffiluties? Do you have any experience with this? Would you be willing to share your tapering plan?

You can try CBT to reframe your anxious thoughts. I also live with GAD and it is really unbearable at times. However, in the moment you are anxious, the best thing to do is to press on. I think it’s everyone’s instinct to remove ourselves from the situation and rest, but if at all possible, staying present and showing yourself that you are able to tolerate these difficult sensations and thoughts is the way to teach yourself to get through these high anxiety episodes.

A free app from Dr. David Burns is available to try out CBT called Feeling Great. You may want to download it and give it a try.

Whatever you do, do NOT get on any kind of benzos. After four weeks, one is hooked and develops a tolerance and will a long and painful process of tapering off. I was not told this. given informed and now after five months, I am facing maybe a year of withdrawing to get off them.
I get outside and bask in the sunshine, garden, be with friends, cook, do the washing, basic things, do spring cleaning in pubic gardens. Feeling useful and being loved are my top priorities, but I know they are hard when one is feeling anxious, but even little helps to get out of some of it. Also praying, trusting GOD and meditation.
Good luck. I wish you the best.

@gunshy
It is too late for not getting on benzos. I have been on .5 for five months and am looking for the best plan to taper off clonzapam. Right now I have a liquid suspension but am fearful of trying it for fear the switch even to half and half liquid and tab until i am stable will be too much for me. If you tapered off, how exactly did you do it, if you don't mind sharing. I have been through so much suffering already that I don't think i can take much more.

@gseaborn

Hi Luv,
Sounds like stress to me, as with any disease we tend to think to much because it is totally out of our control now and if you are like me, a former control freak it is doubly hard to adjust...but you can it is all in your mind set, like when you wake you already have an idea of what a day your going to have by the pain or stress of the day before and then those wonderful dreams, am I rite? I am on Zoloft low dose and take 2.5mg of Diazepam {Valium} when needed...it helps to discuss with your Doctor...These are only aides The mind is your battlefield, Take it slow and perhaps some mello music to calm the constant tides amen~
God Bless and comfort you on your journey! xo