#anxiety tip

[residents-of-the-darkforest]

Pro tip for anyone with too much anxiety to open a door because you’re worried it’ll be a pull and you’ll look stupid trying to push it or vice versa, here’s what I find happens 90% of the time:

if you’re on the outside, pull. If you’re on the inside, push

I don’t know why, but I imagine that it makes it harder for bad people to get in, and/or makes it easier for people to rush out in the case of emergencies (crowd shoving against the door vs crowd running and stopping briefly to open it. Especially in a panic).

So whenever I have to open a new door and don’t know which is what, I imagine a crowd rushing through. It greatly helped.

[high-quality-tiktoks]

lmk if you try it!

[dogheadedhumanboy]

Cool-Down Tips

Small tips to help yourself calm down from an overload, anxiety attack, or anything you feel is overwhelming. I got these from my therapist :)

1. cross your arms or one of your arms over your chest. use two fingers to tap on your collarbone or whatever area feels comfortable and close your eyes if you’re comfy enough in the area you’re in. focus and listen to yourself breathing, do not break this focus. do not listen to others around you, just listen to your body.

2. this one is called the 5 senses countdown, it’s actually really really helpful for me! count backwards from five, using your senses to do this. count 5 things you can see, 4 things you can feel, 3 things you can hear, 2 things you can smell, and 1 thing you can taste. you can switch up the order of the senses, but be sure to count backwards. <3

3. if breathing helps you, try doing this one. breathe in for 4 seconds, hold it in for 6, and let it out for 8. if this doesn’t work, try to breathe slowly and time some hand movements with the inhale and exhale of your breaths.

[world-of-socks]

Weird art thing that helps with my anxiety:

Drawing circles. Over and over and over again. Just filling an entire page with circles. The repetitive motion and the easy round shape is really calming for me.

I get anxious in public places a lot and I always have a small notebook with me, so maybe this just works for me, but do with this information what you will.

Maybe it just works for me. Maybe this is an established method. Maybe this won’t work for you. I dunno.

Just thought I’d share since school is starting up and the world has just been so stressful lately.

Stay safe and healthy (both mentally healthy and physically healthy).

Love you all!

- Socks

[adhd-anxiety-hoh-shit]

Reblog/comment on this post with whatever ANXIETY tips you have!

ADHD version

Hearing Loss version

[paranormal-pan]

Witchy tip for people with anxiety

If you have a crystal you can wear around your neck, do it. Some good ones for anxiety are amethyst and- my favorite- howlite.

There’s a specific position that I like to hold it when I’m feeling shaky anxious.

Hold it in a fist with the crystal pressed against your palm (I use my left hand, my right doesn’t work 🤷‍♂️) with your ring finger, and have the rest of your fingers pressed against your palm, and hold your hand to your chest so your wrist is touching your chest near your heart.

Take a second to breathe and don’t focus on anything but that. Even imagine a flow of mist or energy or water of calmness coming from your crystal and washing over you or flowing into you.

After a few seconds of this I ususally stop shaking and my body feels calm. I hope this can help someone ^^

[bubblycider]

Pro tip: if you're anxious about sending an email and you have a gmail account, you can program the time the email will be sent.

This way, you can give yourself some breathing space between writing the email and the actual time you'll likely get the answer.

[goldenstars-for-goldenhearts]

Quick release of energy:

Write down what you want to get rid of, things you want to overcome, etc

Burn it- this can be done with a candle, in the fireplace, just set that paper on fire (be careful!!!)

Thank yourself and whatever you believe in

Honestly, even if you aren’t spiritual, the catharsis of burning something physically representing burdens helps. I’ve done this to help with anxiety symptoms before and it feels nice to watch your burdens burn.