Posted by Noa on May 26, 2004, at 8:55:53
In reply to Major school Anxieties--Help Me, posted by Angela2 on May 25, 2004, at 17:04:57
What a pain anxiety can be! Now you're anxious *about* your anxiety, too. Familiar territory to me, as well, Angela.
Do you feel your medications work adequately?
Another thing to think about is adding some counseling to the mix. For support and to learn techniques to calm yourself when the anxiety flares up.
I know, for me, if my anxiety gets triggered, it helps to do some cognitive and body-focused anxiety reduction techniques. If I can't calm myself, my ability to deal with the stressor in a good problem-solving way is impaired, and all I want to do is escape from the scene!
Also, learning to identify my triggers has allowed me to learn to prevent the anxiety from flaring up too much in the first place--by predicting the trigger and using the calming techniques.Therapy has also helped me tune into some of the more subtle, less obvious triggers and calm myself before the anxiety flares up.
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