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I really appreciated your recent post about tips for anxiety and how to move forward and try to overcome it! It really is nice to see posts encouraging recovery, so thank you! ☺️❣️

No problem!! I’m always here if ya need some support love ❤️❤️

Guys I have some tips!!!

So I’ve been dealing with my extreme anxiety and depression with my therapist lately and she’s taught me a couple things to help with the intrusive thoughts that actually really help

When I get anxious I sometimes get anxious about friends not liking me and like them trying to send me messages that I can’t decipher about not wanting to be my friend anymore. My brain will tell me how worthless I am and I used to dealing with it by pushing it off and treating it like an annoying thought. If I put in in like metaphorical words, I treat my anxiety like an enemy, I’ve been learning how to help myself be less anxious and my therapist told me to treat my anxiety more like a sad friend.

Treating your anxiety like a sad friend helps a lot because it’s like giving your subconscious a big hug. It works best for me when I go into a quiet room and close my eyes and imagine my anxiety as a sad or anxious person. That allowed me to treat it like I would treat a sad or anxious friend and calmed me down a lot.

It works well with depression too if you have thoughts that put you down.

With my depression it usually comes in the mornings because it’s kind of like a default mood. Your blood sugar is lower in the mornings so that lowers your mood and because my brain is so accustomed to being depressed that puts me in a bad/sad mood.

I’ve started using a reverse therapy for myself which means I do things that are the opposite of what I’m feeling to push the depressive thoughts away and put myself into a better mood. I do things like blast my favorite song, drink coffee/tea, run/bike, paint, do my makeup, etc. You can really do anything that makes you happy though. It really puts me in a good mood and makes me feel better about the day.

Don’t let your depression set your mood for your day, try to change it by doing things that make you happy.

Depression isn’t always that easy though. Bad days suck ass and they come really often for me personally but you have to know that’s ok. It isn’t as easy as changing your mood, it’s taken me a year and a half of therapy to even scratch the surface of getting myself better.

Take care of yourself and if this doesn’t help know that it could just be for me, peoples brains are different. I just thought I’d share a bit of my journey to see if anyone else would benefit from my experience.

#if you have any other questions message me or send me an anon!#depression #anxiety #self care #self help