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what i do when i have anxiety : a thread
i play this game called bounce that basically helps me manage my anxiety levels and it cools me down everytime i play it because the game takes a lot of my attention + just spent an hour playing it because i had anxiety episode
i listen to maia her vocals and her uke chords are really calming - especially cliché, makes me fall asleep everytime I listen to it https://open.spotify.com/artist/0HthCchcL0kVLHTr113Vk1?si=9zlwi-_GSKqU8M_7ckJTXQ">https://open.spotify.com/artist/0H...
my therapist told me everytime a thought or an event overwhelms me and sends me into a panic mode and when i am calming down i get to picture (i am good w visuals) a safe room that i get to name - i call mine the closet and i decorate it the way i want - whatever fits my
comfort so my closet is surrounded by vintage book shelves and a beanbag and she asked me to safely pack my thoughts in boxes and place them in the almirah because that way i can revisit them when i calm down and i don& #39;t feel like i am abandoning them
my previous therapist asked me to remind myself to well, forgive myself because my body goes into an overdrive when i have anxiety attacks so i need to orally remind myself that i am forgiving myself so that i dont end up gaslighting myself later
i make edits for my friends because they take up my attention and help me return to normalcy
i fall asleep, because as khalid hosseini says, that& #39;s how children deal with terror, they fall asleep.
PS now this thread isn& #39;t what you should do when you have anxiety, please no, different things work for different people and i am in no position to guide you, this is just me coping, oh one more thing when i have anxiety, i make twitter threads.
