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Tips For Generalized Anxiety Disorder

By Nick Whyte

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Published: 27Feb2012
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However you have decided to treat your anxiety, there are a few things that you can do yourself to speed up the process. Making sure you look after yourself will go a long way towards improving your natural resistance to anxiety, helping you to deal with the everyday symptoms of anxiety better. These are some suggestions on home treatment for anxiety. If nothing else, be honest about how you feel.

Stop reading now if you believe that you may have a closed mind.

These suggestions will genuinely help you to cope with your anxiety but one problem with anxious thinking is negative thinking and an unwillingness to try new things. This is a perfectly normal part of anxiety disorders. It may just be that you are not ready to take on board new ideas at the moment

Make sure that you eat healthily!. I'm not suggesting that you go vegetarian, maxing out on vegetables and fruit or eating whole grain foods. What I'm talking about is getting balance into or back into your eating habits and lifestyle. Try to eat three meals every day. You're your blood sugar levels steady by eating regular meals and you will be less anxious.

If you don't it, try missing a meal and watch your anxiety levels increase.

Stop eating junk food. Take the time to eat and enjoy it. Cook proper meals. It might seem simple but savour your food and take time to eat it. Let yourself relax and slow down when you eat. Some quality selfish time will always help to reduce your anxiety levels so stop eating on the run and don't snack.

Start exercising! But have fun. Do something that you enjoy and begin exercising two or three times a week. Aerobic exercise is known to reduce anxious thinking by releasing endorphins into the bloodstream. Endorphins produce a natural high or feel good factor after exercise. Exercise will also help to distract you from your anxiety and also helps your heart to deal with the side effects of anxiety. Try to do different exercises to keep things interesting. Try a different class each week, start a sport like tennis, badminton or squash that forces you to interact with other people to help take your mind off your anxiety. Join your local gym, try swimming. Even something as simple as a brisk walk will help you cope with anxiety. Mix strength building and aerobic exercise. As you start to get more fit you will begin to have more self confidence and cope better with your anxiety.

Try a weekly class of Pilates or Yoga. It will show you useful breathing exercises that will help you relax and will also get you fit into the bargain.

Start slowly. Try ten minutes exercise each day to begin with and then, when you start to feel fitter decide about joining your local gym or an exercise class. Build up the level of exercise gradually. You are far more likely to continue with it if you begin gradually and increase it slowly.

Allot time to your worries. One thing about anxious thinking is that it can start without warning, taking you by surprise. You're just getting on with your day and suddenly an anxious thought brings everything to a halt. Try just accepting it. Is it something worth spending time worrying about? If it is, then give yourself permission to think about it later. Set a time to think about your worries. At the alloted time, think about them until you have come to a conclusion.

This is an amazingly powerful tool that really helps to to take control of your thinking.

It also works for the anxious thoughts that can wake you up at two in the morning. Simply accept and acknowledge the anxious thought but tell yourself that you will deal with it in the morning. Set a time and think about it later.

You can do lots to help yourself with anxiety or even overcome anxiety completely. Give yourself a chance by beginning your own home treatment for anxiety regime.

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