Started meditating now and use my Apple Watch for guidance.
I wonder what other people are doing. Because I’m having some rough nights sleeping in due to anxiety.
Avoiding anxiolytics or beta blockers for now. Also avoiding a mental health therapist for as long as I can.
Everyone one has there own way to deal with stress.
My suggestion would be to not apply other’s idea and book an appointment in NIMHANS if you are still in Bangalore.
The sooner you start taking care of this, the more you will be relaxed.
Also, please don’t be dependent on meds. It will take time but you will be able to deal with this on your own.
I mean. I would be open to getting therapy but the stigma at my workplace is too much. I have some terrible colleagues that make me feel like shit everyday.
You don't have to tell your workplace about your visits to therapy. That's your personal life and falls in that boundary. And honestly no one should give f*** about people who stigmatize therapy visits
What’s causing the stress? Pay? Work? Layoffs? Marriage? For layoffs fear, you can spend daily sometime on upskilling? FOMO, cut social media?
I don’t think there would be a single solution. Identify the problem, work daily to make it better. But at some point you’ve to make peace with it, Not living in present worrying about future events won’t help a bit.
Stress is caused by ambiguity. In an outcome driven role not an effort driven role.
I’m not in your shoes, but we have to stop thinking of work after work hours. Worrying doesn’t solve anything. Either you do something to fix it, or make a peace with it. I know it’s easier said than done. But work on it, also if body is tired enough you would get sleep easily, evening workout might help a little.
I go for long bicycle rides or swim. These 2 activities help me disconnect from devices and spend some time in real world.
I have dealt with anxiety in the past and have overcome it. This happened few months before my engineering exam preparations. I used to follow a packed schedule and used to sleep 6 hrs daily, and started just sleeping 5hrs when this started. Somehow my body tried to adapt to this, so I wouldn't feel sleepy at night. Also I used to worry a lot as well about exams. Then I increased my physical activity, thinking being more tired would help in sleeping and it worked for few weeks. But again my body adapted to it. I increased my physical activity a lot more. Again after couple of days my body again adapted to it and I started loosing sleep again. At this point I would just sleep 1 out of 3 days and would feel tired all the time. Also consulted a doctor and had to take a sleeping pill before my board exam. Pretty much had to give my exams in this state.
What worked: Since exam anxiety was the root cause, it started getting better after exams. But even after exams, if I get too stressed, I still get this problem.
Currently whenever I feel I'm going to reach same level of anxiety due to work, I drop everything to relax. Doesn't matter what deadline it is, because health comes first and I don't have the courage to go through all this again
@PhoenixX Wow. I am genuinely quite proud of you. I appreciate your feels.
Thank you. Hope my experience helps you in some way. Also, EDM music helped me fall asleep (the ones with no lyrics), until I didn't need it anymore
Tried therapy, going out, hobbies, workout, sports. Nothing really helped, all temporary escapes.
Going back to hometown. Getting into a relationship and getting married. Permanently resolved the issue. Good luck
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