Anxiety...how do you fight it?

I don't fight it I just bottle up my emotions and try to stay away from people

I go for a walk around sunset and I reflect. I feel so much better even if I didn't come up with a solution to the particular problem but just freeing your mind to the earth does it for me.

I use to have horrible anxiety. Went to the ER with chest pains/left arm numb several times. My old Dr. told me to give up caffeine. A year later I finally did, and the anxiety attacks went away for the most part (some random ones occasionally). It took a couple weeks to get out of my system. I have been caffeine free for about 4 years now. The negative to it all is that I can't have any type of medication that would be considered a "stimulant", steroid inhalers for asthma, the good sinus medicine with pseudoephedrine or phenylephrine, and strangely even birth control pills; for example. My new Dr. thinks I am just hyper sensitive to how my body feels on different medications/caffeine and if I just ignored the feeling I would be fine. Either way, I have been happier off it all.

** This worked for me and seems to be the cause of my anxiety. I know this won't help everyone, but it is a free option to try.

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Hi,I suffer from Anxiety too.I was taught breathing exercises.. Sometimes they help.

I've been dealing with depression and horrible (social) anxiety for as long as I can remember and stupidly, I have yet to seek professional help because my anxiety affects even that. Every single time I go to see my doc about something else, I think "This is it, this time you're gonna bring it up and get help" but then I get all sweaty and nervous and I can feel myself slipping on that 'other people'-mask that I always wear when I'm feeling anxious around people I don't know well.

So I've had to learn to deal with it myself and I'm getting quite alright at it. I agree with those who said the best thing that helps is learning to recognize the signs. Learn to read yourself and then handle the situation accordingly. Do you need a quiet moment? Remove yourself from everyone and everything who may interfere with that. Do you need distraction? Have an activity at hand that will do that for you. What helps me the most is to talk myself down inside my head. It's like there are two sides of me and one of them knows exactly what's going on, that this is chemical and unrelated, so I let that side take over and talk me through it.

Also, I sat down and picked something that's really, really important to me personally. It can be anything, a person, a pet, a hobby, whatever, the only one to make the choice is you. And then I got a small reminder of that thing - again, can be anything but preferably something small - and I always have that with me and look at it when I need the reminder. It's almost like having your best friend with you at all times to talk to you.