Anxiety, how to stress down?
I’m 17, male. I have anxiety and depression, and I’m not on any medication, but undergoing therapy. I need to stress down, my anxiety evolves around my health, especially my heart, but I have found the best way to avoid disease is to live healthy, and not to be stressed. Which makes me more stressed. I’m really scared that my stress is going to give me Tinnitus, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia and the likes. I am planning to take action by starting to exercise, but actually getting started is a challenge.
Tagged with: anxiety and depression • chronic fatigue syndrome • fibromyalgia • health • heart • medication • tinnitus
Filed under: Tinnitus Therapy
Exercise is absolutely right for you. I was stressed pretty bad. I started walking, it felt nerve wracking at first. I was outside, away from the phone, how would folks know if I fell. All the usual crappy stupid anxious thoughts that actually matter not a whit. Once I was walking short distances I upped it to half hour walks and then eventually to half a day with a picnic. Then I got a bike. Now the difference was that I could get miles on the bike but also I had to cycle back up a hill and that really upped the aerobic part of the exercise.
For exercise to really help when you are anxious you have to get out of breath and push it a little. The bike did that.
But you need to fit the exercise to your circumstances, consider swimming, cycling, gym. All of these can be slotted into a working day.
At seventeen you will be in good physical condition so the world is your oyster I had to start at fifty something but I tell you it works and is a great aid to banishing anxiety.