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How to manage anxiety and self-doubt
Strategies for setting realistic goals
The importance of self-compassion and self-care
Check your self-talk
How you talk to yourself about anxiety will affect you.
When you start to worry about something, ask yourself if it is a realistic possibility.
- If the answer is no, try to redirect your thinking to the present.
- If the answer is yes, it is helpful to make a plan to cope, for example, restocking your emergency supplies. Then, set your thoughts aside. You've done what you can.
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Symptoms of anticipatory anxiety
With anticipatory anxiety, you may spend many hours imagining the worst-case scenario.
Symptoms include:
- Difficulty concentrating
- Trouble managing emotions
- Emotional numbness
- Loss of interest in your usual hobbies
- Restlessness
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Anticipatory anxiety as a symptom
Anticipatory anxiety can appear as a symptom of generalised anxiety disorder.
Other conditions can also involve a fear of possible future events:
- Social anxiety disorder involves an extreme fear of rejection.
- A specific phobia...
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Take care of physical needs
Your physical wellness can impact your emotional health.
- Nutrition: If your symptoms include a nervous stomach, you may find it hard to eat, and that can make you feel even worse.
- Sleep: Anxiety can make it difficult to get pro...
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Medication
Medication may help improve symptoms, especially when combined with therapy.
Medication may be recommended if your symptoms:
- make it difficult to cope in your daily life
- prevent you from making progress in therapy
- cause serious distress ...
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Talk about it
It's often not easy to talk about what you're afraid of, but voicing those fears can help them seem less scary.
Letting loved ones know about your anxiety can also help, especially if you feel isolated because of your symptoms. Friends can offer support by listening and pr...
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Anticipatory anxiety
Anticipatory anxiety is worrying about the bad things that could happen. The anxiety typically focuses on things you can't control or predict.
While fears are normal, they can become signs of anticipatory anxiety if they start to interfere with your daily life.
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Therapy
If your own coping strategies are not helping, you could explore professional help. A therapist can help to find sources of stress and help to address possible causes. They can also help you identify harmful or less effective coping methods.
Therapists may recommend cognit...
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Feel and express your emotions
Until we fully release our emotions, they continue to affect our present mindset.
- Do anger work. Allow yourself to be fully disappointed, sad or depressed. Talk about it.
- Write a letter. Purging emotions out on paper give them a place to live outside of yourself.
Find your yes
Before you can become good at saying no, you have to know what you're saying yes to when you're saying no. Every opportunity that you pass with a no is really saying yes to something else.
And if you feel like saying yes, ask for time to think about it before providing an answer. It...
Keep your “self” out of your decisions
Think of your life as a long sequence of actions and decisions.
Just ask yourself, “Is this a good thing to do?” If the answer is Yes, go do it.
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