1. Ask yourself, “Is this helpful?”
. I hadn’t tamed it completely or anything—I doubt I ever will—but years of therapy had equipped me with plenty of tools. When my anxiety reared its noisy head, I could soothe myself, talk myself off the ledge, distract myself, or do whatever I needed in the moment. Like, not to brag, but I was well on my way to the 10,000 hours needed to master the art of calming myself the fuck down.happened.
Here’s what I’ve figured out about managing my anxiety, which has been at an all-time high the past month and a half. Maybe these tips will be obsolete in a month. But maybe they’ll help you right now, too.Somehow, this has become an accidental refrain for me the past month and a half. I blame my Which, ugh. A good vent session is occasionally helpful, yes, but more often than not, you wind up just ruminating and getting yourself more worked up than you started. Same goes for anxiety. The more I indulge my anxious thoughts, the further down the rabbit hole I fall, and the more hypothetical scenarios and outcomes I find to be stressed about. You can probably imagine how my experience of the pandemic has been going.
When that happens—and by that I mean the silence inside my head starts to fill with the sound of a particularly mean swarm of bees—I interrupt myself. Out loud. I wish I could say that I say something soothing or grounding or smart or validating. But honestly, I just start saying, “No, not going there.” Or, “Haha, not right now, no.” Or, “No, thank you.” Or most commonly, “Nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope.
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