How can I overcome feeling anxiety every time I have to travel and leave the house?
jo651
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Sep 1, 2015
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Distraction is the key to overcoming anxiety, focus on anything other than your anxious feelings, if it gets the better of you say in your mind "I am a confident person, I will not allow anxiety to rule me" say this over and over again until your anxious thoughts have gone away...distract your mind, control what you think, do this as often as anxiety arises, overtime your brain will believe you are confident and anxiety will be put back in its place. Distraction techniques: talk and walk with a friend, listen to music, run, yawn (believe it or not), take in your surroundings, be mindful of the here and now.
RecoveryisReal
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Jan 25, 2015
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One way to help with this is to identify why you are feeling anxious. Are you afraid that something bad will happen? What bad thing do you think will happen? Once you have isolated these thoughts you can assess whether or not they will realistically happen. If you tend to think in " all or nothing" thinking, meaning either the worst-case scenario will happen or the best-case scenario, it can be helpful to think of these fears on a spectrum. How likely is it that a meteor will crash into the restaurant you are eating at? Not very. However, this fear could still be very paralyzing to someone. Thinking that the number of possibilities other than the one you are worried about is so much greater than that one can be very beneficial. Also, the space in between the worst and the best, the "grey area", is also the most likely space for your experience to fall into. Instead of worrying that the worst will happen, think about how it might might not be great, but the worst will not happen. Changing my all or nothing thinking has helped my anxiety alot!
Anonymous
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Aug 4, 2015
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From my own personal experience, overcoming anxiety when traveling or leaving the house took some time. I think it's important that one finds something, anything that helps with distracting and/or calming oneself. For me it was meditating once a day, focusing on the positive things in my life, and being grateful for those things that gradually helped with this. Of course, while one technique that may work for one person, may not work for everyone else, the important thing is to find a technique that works best for you.
PashT007
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Apr 13, 2015
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Maybe you could take others with you or even try and talk this out with your closest supporters. Support can be an important thing.
Anonymous
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Jul 6, 2015
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You can remind yourself that your home will always be there for you to get back to and it's okay to feel anxious about leaving it. Just start by taking short trips and remember to smile at others and try to distract your mind. Soon, you might not even want to go back! :)
TreesOfFog
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Nov 17, 2015
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Steping out of your comfort zone can be tough. Sometimes I overcome it by just pushing myself to do it and in about 90% I find myself surprised and relived because I discover that the things aren't bad at all. But there are times when anxiety is hard to battle. I would suggest to take little steps. One at the time.
gracejune
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Sep 25, 2017
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Overcoming the feeling of anxiety when you travel and leave the house is about accepting that message your brain sends you, telling you that you're going into an unknown place that could potentially be filled with danger. Whenever I feel like this, I have to remind myself to breathe deeply, and then acknowledge that little signal in my brain, and tell it that it's not necessary, and that I am capable and secure. Talking to someone you trust while traveling and being outside of your house really helps too, because they're on that journey with you.
Anonymous
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Mar 19, 2018
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You can overcome it by if you are feeling anxious when traveling or leaving the house bring your music with you to help ease your anxiety as well as a blob to squeeze to help you with it too.
Anonymous
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May 22, 2015
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Take a person with you to calm you down when that feeling happens, it won't be so bad if someone is their to comfort you through every step of the way.
Anonymous
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Jul 27, 2015
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You feel anxiety when you travel. In order to determine how to overcome a problem we need to find out the roots of it. In other words, first answer why do you feel anxious when you leave your house.
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