Most of us can deal with a low level of anxiety by either accepting it or brushing over for a while, and doing what we do each day without too much interference by that anxiety. Obviously, this is not the proper way to DEAL with anxiety, but it helps getting through the day. One day at a time.
We are living in times when it has become a lot more difficult to just brush those anxieties away, of course, and it has become less easy to disregard them now. If you already are afraid for your life, becoming infected with a potential death threat, keeping other anxieties under wraps is becoming harder, if not impossible! We need to find ways to lower the general level of fear and anxiety overall and there are a couple of tricks (yes: tricks!) that can help with moving forward healthily. I’m not claiming those will help you extract and get rid of anxiety, but they may just help with keeping you a lot calmer. Stop binging news and talk radio! There is a fine line between ‘keeping informed’ and ‘getting a full whammy of everyone else’s anxiety thrown at you 24/7’. Stick to how you would have followed the news in the past: maybe watch a news bulletin once a day – preferably not in the evening but early on so you have a chance to digest and not fall asleep with worries on your mind. Read your one newspaper and leave it there. If something important happens, you’ll know! Make sure you have a proper daily routine. Regularity makes everything more predictable and gives you a chance to disregard the irregular things that create upset for you. Anything you KNOW is going to happen is helpful at this point. Meditate at least once a day. I realise that anxiety makes this more difficult, so why not incorporate some guided meditation into your day? There are lots of options on YouTube and there are Apps available that can help with it. Taking your mind off your worries is worth a try, isn’t it? Don’t stay all on your own. There are ways to communicate that you can explore, from text messages all the way to video conferences. Admittedly, this is different from meeting someone face to face, but it will have to do. You’ll probably find that just talking to another human being will make you feel better (don’t forget to stick with uplifting subjects and not go down the rabbit hole of each other’s worries). Reach out to others. You may be one of those people who thrive on helping others. By all means, keep doing this, any way you can! Be good to yourself, more so than ever before. If you share your home, be good to them, too! Take time when you need it, most things are not quite as important today as they were just weeks ago. I hope some of these suggestions will be of help to you. I’m not personally all that anxious most times, but they keep me from seeing any anxieties develop in front of my own eyes.
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