High Anxiety..

I don't have high anxiety but I do have some. It runs in my family. What works the best for me is that I get a workout in when I start feeling the anxiety level going up. I also started taking melatonin to help me sleep at night. I been out of it for a couple of nights and I been feeing really anxious today. Do you drink a lot of coffee or soda with caffiene that could be a cause. I tend to drink way too much diet dr pepper but in the past when I gave it up I didn't have as many attacks. Hope I helped.

Try meditating.

^^ This x1000 ^^ I was in counseling for anxiety and it was recommend to me. It's fantastic

I have general anxiety disorder, and went through a bit of a phase where I would get anxiety attacks to the point where I couldn't work my entire shift, had to leave classes early, and avoided going out whenever possible. I don't know what will work for you, but I devised a little system for myself that helped a lot.

The first thing I had to do was get away from wherever I was. Going to the washroom, going outside, even just going into a different room. Getting myself out of the place where the anxiety crept up helped a lot. Then I had to sit for a minute or two and think very hard about what I was doing. From what I understand anxiety is completely different for everyone, but for me it was an irrational feeling that *something* bad would happen. Sometimes there were triggers, like a strange sound or a weird sight, but more often that not it appeared out of nowhere. Taking the time to think about where I was and what I was doing did a lot to help out. I'd think about how many times I'd been in the exact same place doing the exact same thing and how nothing bad had ever actually happened. I just had to get the rational part of my brain back in control.

I went through some cognitive therapy to help work through it, and the doctor I saw told me that anxiety disorder is just a leftover survival instinct from when humans were hunter/gatherers living out in the open. Back then, if you assumed every strange noise or flash out of the corner of your eye was a tiger, you'd live longer. Having a well-developed flight response could mean the difference between making it back home and getting yourself killed. Doesn't really apply today, though. If all else fails, thinking about the likelihood of a tiger jumping out from behind my professor usually distracts me long enough to pull myself back together

If you're really having a hard time, consider seeing your doctor. I didn't want to go on medication for it either, so we went with therapy. Understanding why I felt the way I did and learning techniques for dealing with it really helped.