I use magnesium to help my anxiety… I wish I had Xanax but, I also know its relief is temporary. Rescue remedy is a liquid that helps some times. Breathing, soft wave sounds on my phone are my healing today. Sending understanding
Relief Remedy is expensive here... well, for me anyway. I'll look in the rest. I know the relief it temporary, but at times my anxiety is so high, that to do any of the actions required to improve and heal, I first need to be calmer... sort of a catch 22 thing. The first time I ever really improved was at a time when I started taking anxiety meds, and also until they kicked in, that amount of Xanax. And I was going to talk therapy at the time too, weekly or monthly. That was when I was calm enough to look into alternative options, learn to meditate daily, worked on myself in other ways... And now here we go again, except I can't afford that route of help.
Exercise. I hate to say it, but the more I exercise the less panicky I am in general.
I remember that, when I was dancing regularly and training to be fitter for the same purpose, I was less anxious and less angry. Now I have allowed myself to be too long without it. Because of circumstance. Regardless, I was trying to get back to it, and all of a sudden, some life stuff happened, and now it's like my brain is on fire and I need to exercise but I am so ANXIOUS, that I don't know how to get myself to do so. I either feel too selfish, too depressed, about to blow up in panic or something else. So coordinated movement seems beyond me. I was just thinking I've found a way to reset, and now it rains so much it's too cold at home, I can't afford gym and also too cold for walks. But again, if it was perfect weather, I just feel like my nervous system is on fire at the moment and needs help to be okay enough to get myself to workout. That's why habit was such a beautiful help when I had it. Now I don't...
Also valerian, which is also sedating.
Might try... I tried passion flower tablets, but really I don't think they helped enough to notice.
Square breathing helps. And my new favorite is the alphabet. Choose a topic (desserts, types of trees, types of fuits, whatever) and then go through the alphabet naming one for each letter. Apple, Banana, Cranberry, etc .... It moves the activity to your frontal lobe and that helps to quiet the anxiety.
Beathing is one of those things I have more success with if I have the habit. Else it's torture trying to calm my mind. But I'll try.
is doing a lot of preventative work so that my anxiety baseline is lower. I'm less likely to spike all the way up into a panic attack that way.
That I do get. As I mentioned, I had to take medication to be calm enough to process enough to lower my baseline. And to be able to make changes in my life. Now I'm at like the red zone of anxiety. I need to work to be able to afford help, but I need help to start earning normal amounts again. It's breaking me.
L-theanine is mentioned a lot for a calm meditative mind without making you sleepy.
I've heard about it but have no idea of pricing and doses. I take melatonin to sleep and it's great. But I need something at this moment to help me work through my days.
I can really recommend using chatgpt as well for suggestions and stuff that you can try.
I'll try. I've used that for random advice a lot lately, especially when I have no one to talk to.
