How do you get over your anxieties?

[stark04]

What are your anxieties? How did you get over it or how do you deal with it everyday? For instance I realised I have Parking Anxiety and I think I'll never get over it, I'm always worried about getting a good parking spot. What are yours?

[Lyndsielee666]

I was diagnosed with all seven forms of anxiety on top of my health phobia. I don’t get over them Lmfao just kinda go with the flow.

[stark04]

I guess 20s and 30s are the most depressing years of everyone's life. You just gotta roll with it, right?

[Anonymous]

There is a reason why there are so many names for all of these different forms of problems... naming them and constantly referring to those names gives it power... it's not a health system, it's a sickness system.

[elly91]

I have exaggerated anxiety over time and appointments. The idea of arriving late freaks me out. Yoga really seems to help me where that's concerned especially meditation.

[stark04]

Yes I think meditation might help you with all the overthinking, perhaps calm your mind and help you think straight. I should try meditating too. 🙂

[elly91]

Maybe you should. It's certainly better to try. If you don't you'll never know if it could work and help with your anxieties.

[AmandaYVR]

Exposure therapy? You don't need to go through a professional necessarily, but you can slowly train yourself to become acclimatized to the things which frighten you. Sometimes fears are unfounded; sometimes they are. But either way, you can continue to remind yourself that you limit yourself, and your life, by avoiding many things.

You can read about it here a bit: https://www.apa.org/ptsd-guideline/patients-and-families/exposure-therapy

People with anxiety about time, and parking, and whatnot, often benefit from planning ahead, allowing more time to sort things out. You could also try to adjust to the fact that parking often costs money, and it's not always worth saving money to get a worse spot. Some things are worth it.

I don't like going new places for the first time, because I have a fairly bad natural sense of direction, and I find myself going in the wrong direction quite often. Someone else can be spun around and still know where north is, for instance, but I tend to have a habit of going back the way I came. Strange.

But anyway, there's all types of anxieties. Social is a common one. Fear of open, public spaces can be very debilitating. Worrying about logistics is not too bad. More planning, and a greater dedication to trying to adapt and be flexible, no matter what happens, can appease it a bit. But in all honesty, the longer you live, the more things will happen, and it might not get better if your fears get slowly confirmed over time. I have travel anxiety, I guess you could say, sort of, but it's founded. I've had my luggage stolen, luggage lost for a while by an airline, a massive storm happened on a departure day and my flight got cancelled and I had to sleep on the airport floor, I've had a flat tire on my way to the airport, had one pet totally abandoned by a friend who was supposed to be looking after it for me, had a terrible trip with a group of friends which later ended the friendships I had had for years, had bad experiences with my partner because of his stress and anxiety when travelling, had blisters so bad I could not walk another step, had allergy attacks and got colds because of the poor air quality on planes, been not let over the border to another country because of suspicions of intent, been chased by a cop car because they thought I was fleeing the border (I was really just running to a duty free shop to buy a carton of smokes for my mum)... there are probably more things but I don't recall right now. Travel sucks. Parking sucks. Maybe you can just go easy on yourself and try more to accept that life's logistics are a pain. And leave early.

[fireforeffect]

Pray and turn my troubles over to God.

[stark04]

That's nice.