5 Tips For Taming the Anxiety Beast

The Affects of Anxiety.

Anxiety is one of the many silent killers. It may not stop your heart on the spot, but it can kill your joy and make a constant state of exhaustion become your norm. It can quickly turn every aspect of your life into a much dreaded chore.

Existing under that state of mental strain is a slow death. You’ll find that simple things become overwhelming. Even events and activities that were meant to be recreational and fun.

Anxiety can affect people differently and there are many levels of it. Not everyone experiences full blown panic attacks that leave you breathless and debilitated. I do however believe that everyone has experienced it in some way, whether they recognize it or not. It might be hiding in that cigarette habit you can’t seem to break or your lacking the ability to make decisions.

My Personal Experience.

Now, I’m not claiming to be an expert on this subject or pretending to have all the answers. I’m simply speaking as a person who has battled this for many years and have learned enough from it that I can be a functioning adult.

I still battle it everyday, but it doesn’t control me like it use to. There was a time I would get full blown panic attacks just by thinking “Gee, I hope my anxiety doesn’t act up today.” That little thought was enough to trigger it. Sometimes I had good reason to feel anxious, other times it would hit me with seemingly no cause.

I recall one particular time I started feeling anxious at a new job. The more I thought about how bad it’d be to have a panic attack at work, the more anxious I got. That’s the slippery-slope of anxiety. It builds off of one uncontrolled thought and suddenly your mind is downward spiraling.

Well, I ended up sitting on the bathroom floor that day, wondering how in the world I was going to make it through life like that. My head was spinning, my palms sweating, and I felt as if I would lose my meager lunch at any minute. My mindset was, “If I couldn’t handle holding down a simple fast food job, then how was I ever going to mount to anything…

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