What are some ways to deal with anxiety?
Constant anxiety can have a huge impact on a person's life. In this video, psychologist Dr. Tamar Chansky, who specializes in anxiety, offers help for people who have relentless anxiety.
Transcript
Sometimes we experience a sort of low level but constant buzz of anxiety.
It's very unpleasant. Why is that Happening [MUSIC PLAYING]
Basically anxiety is a signal from the brain that's saying something's wrong or something bad is
about to happen and you need to mobilize and be ready for that emergency. Only thing is there really isn't an emergency.
So what you can do when you're feeling that buzz of anxiety whether it's just that feeling rushed, your heart racing,
or, you know, sweaty palms, or just feeling like you need to move all the time is to relabel what's going on
and say to yourself false alarm. Someone just switched-- flipped the switch in my mind
into emergency mode. There is no emergency. Once you do that, then you can start
to work on the physical symptoms, too. It's so helpful if you are prone to that low level
buzz of anxiety to not just take care of it in the moment but to cultivate a habit of on every hour
when let's say you're sitting at your desk of just taking a few slow, deep breaths. No one knows that you're doing it.
You just do it quietly for a few seconds but kind of like knowing where your keys are at home. If you always put it in the same place,
you put them in the same place, you're gonna be able to find your keys. If you know how to do your breathing exercise when
you really need it in a true anxious moment, you're gonna be able to find those skills and find those muscles and most of all find that relief.
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