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People who formerly had Anxiety issues. What worked for you? (lemm.ee)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Several things, in no particular order:

medication: immediate relief
quit toxic workplace: still took years to shed that baggage, still have some baggage
catastrophising: "what's the worst that could happen, really?" Followed by "is that actually a problem?"

I think the last one was the most useful as it's a fundamental mindset change.

One thing that really aggravates my anxiety is/was travelling anywhere.

Working out that being late travelling to the in-laws (a 4-5 hour car journey), which would annoy the shit out of them, really didn't matter was amazing.