The Treatment of Anxiety

The Treatment of Anxiety should be high on your list of wants if you are a sufferer. Anxiety is a debilitating illness which lowers the effectiveness of your immune system to ward off other illnesses.

High levels of stress can contribute to a high level of anxiety.

However, as it is impossible to avoid stress altogether, it becomes a necessity to manage our stress and tension levels using proven techniques. Treatment of Anxiety is fairly straightforward. The measures taken will also free you from stress and tensions.

There are several easy methods to manage our stress and anxiety levels.

 

Treatment of Anxiety - Help for the mind

 

1) Identify the factors which trigger your stress and anxiety and thereby seek ways of avoiding their occurrence in the first place. Grab a pen and paper. Think about all things that make you feel anxious or stressed and write them down. Rate them on a scale of 1 to 10,      1 having a small effect upon you but a 10 having a large adverse affect.  Then decide which factors to address on a priority basis. Should you avoid, run or fight this situation in future?

Each triggering factor identified may need a combination of solutions, counselling may be one of them. Treatment of anxiety in such cases will require your hard work and perseverance.

2) Reduce Anger: Manage your anger, as it is potentially a big trigger for increased anxiety. Do whatever you can to minimise your anger towards others; anger management classes, groups or books can help. Accept that you cannot change others and that everyone has their quirks, foibles and shortcomings, even you! 

3) Patience and Tolerance: Two of the well known positive traits that will help us to reduce anxiety levels. Though difficult to acquire these positive characters, add these parameters in your actions and thoughts. Again you need to accept the shortcomings of others. When someone doesn’t measure up to your expectations, ask yourself how you could help them.

4) Family and Work Relationships: How do you interact with others in the family and work environment? Develop a "give and take" attitude to eradicate differences and reduce anxiety levels. By using techniques of reducing anger and increasing patience and tolerance towards others, your interpersonal relationships cannot help but improve automatically.

Treatment of Anxiety - Help for the Body

 

Treatment of anxiety using natural methods should be utilised.

There are many anxiety relief measures available for you to utilise, without using drugs:

 

1) Give yourself a Well Balanced Diet

·         Ensure you get a well balanced diet: to include protein, vitamins, minerals fresh fruit and vegetables, wherever possible

·         Try not to over-eat, under-eat or binge on food. Little and often keeps the body running

·         Drink lots of fresh water. It keeps your system hydrated and can help avoid the uncomfortable feelings of dehydration, such as headache.

2) Make time for relaxation. Rests are very important in order for the body to function properly and to avoid getting “burnt out”. Ensure you take breaks from work. Any break is better than no break and if you can find a quiet space in which to relax then so much the better.
You could also take up relaxation classes, do yoga or breathing exercises, both of which will improve your anxiety condition.

3) Exercise: It almost goes without saying that exercise will benefit anxiety sufferers as much if not more so than other people. There are numerous and plentiful suggestions to keep fit out there, so find an exercise program that suits you.

4) Get enough sleep. Anxiety and worry can cause loss of valuable sleeping hours. And lack of sleep can also contribute to anxiety, so it’s a vicious circle.

Ensure you get enough sleep each night and make it a regular routine for long-term results.

5) Avoid Stimulants. I am going to list now a number of stimulants. The problem with these items is that they boost you up initially, but as their impact wears off, you come down with a crash. This can leave you feeling drained and more anxious than you were before. Many of them also cause more adrenalin than is required to enter into your bloodstream, which is the primary cause of many anxiety symptoms.
Avoid: Caffeine, Processed Sugar, Energy Drinks, Alcohol, Nicotine and Drugs.
If you have an addiction to any of these, seek help in breaking that addiction.

Do Not Underestimate the power of this final tip – It can produce life changing results!

 

Although each tip on its own will benefit you,

If you adopt all of these methods you will achieve the best results.

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