Tips for dealing with anxiety from people who have dealt with anxiety

My anxiety and depression comes back out of nowhere about 3 or 4 times a year. Lasts a few days and then goes away. It's not nearly as debilitating as you used to be. These days it's just more aggravating then anything, but it still sucks.

Exercise definitely helps me. Squats are a really good one. It puts a lot of pressure on the muscles in the back of your legs, and going up and down and the change and equlibirum seems to be good too.

The more I've learned about it, the more I try to focus on the vagus nerve and the parasympathetic nervous system. So much of it has to be with getting your body out of fight and flight mode and reducing cortisol. I think it's worth researching if you deal with anxiety and haven't yet. Something as simple as looking out of the corner of one eye for 10 seconds and then looking out of the corner of your other eye for can help some poepole. Or tense the muscles in your feet for 10 seconds, and then tense your calf muscles for 10 seconds and keep working up your body.

This is a pretty solid video…



Youtube also is good for background music and noise if you're dealing with anxiety – parasympathetic nervous system music.

Good luck to anyone going through this. It's no fun, but every storm eventually blows over and the sun comes back out!