Resource: 11 Tips for Anxiety Sufferers

This thread by an amazing unknown listener gives some great tips for people living with anxiety. 

Here they are summarised below (there is a lot more detail in the article, so if you find this helpful feel free to find out more!)

• Regular exercise is extremely important, as it releases endorphins and helps you to feel more relaxed. 
• Often, sharing can be better than holding things back - isolating yourself can have a very negative effect on your mental health, and, even if you don't feel like it, sometimes sharing can help you to find support and validation when you're going through a stressful time.
• Coping tools are useful in the long term to maintain a long effect. This helps you to cope with stress faster, and feel healthier both psychologically and physically. 
• Healthy distractions are helpful to prevent dwelling on negative, anxiety-inducing thoughts. 
• Make stresses fun - it may be difficult but sometimes turning stresses into games can help you to feel more relaxed about a situation. 
• Write out unforgettable thoughts - sometimes anxiety causes us to keep thinking one thought over and over again. Writing it out has been shown to help our minds move past this.
• Drink water and get enough magnesium! These have links with anxiety, so making sure your diet allows you to get enough of these can help a lot.
• Don't google symptoms - there are a lot of anxiety symptoms that mimic serious illnesses, and this can seriously stress you out! If you're worried about this, it is recommended to see a professional who can give expert advice :). 
• Surround yourself with positive people - having positive friends and doing positive things together helps you to build each other up and support each other. 
• All anxiety matters! Often there may be multiple things contributing to our anxiety - if we can decrease even one of these things it can help our overall wellbeing.
• Feeling good about yourself matters - this helps you to build confidence in yourself and turn reduces anxiety (and depression). 

Ask yourself: which of these tips is most useful to you? How can you start to use it in your daily life?

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