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Fully You #23 Managing Anxiety


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1. Subject Defined

Definition from APA https://dictionary.apa.org/anxiety

Anxiety is an emotion characterised by feelings of tension, worried thoughts and physical changes like increased blood pressure. ... They may avoid certain situations out of worry. They may also have physical symptoms such as sweating, trembling, dizziness or a rapid heartbeat

From Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anxiety

Anxiety is an emotion characterised by an unpleasant state of inner turmoil, often accompanied by nervous behaviour such as pacing back and forth, somatic complaints - physical manifestation of anxiety, and rumination. It is the subjectively unpleasant feelings of dread over anticipated events...

3. Curated Content

Red Table Talk episode on Facebook  https://bit.ly/2UrVmyo with Dr. Ramani Duvarsala and Jay Shetty

4. Your turn

From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (https://bit.ly/2JmDXk7) - Coping with stress will make you, the people you care about, and your community stronger.

To support kids :

Take time to talk with your child or teen about the COVID-19 outbreak. Answer questions and share facts (https://bit.ly/2WNqFoV) about COVID-19 in a way that your child or teen can understand.

Be a role model.

A few things to remember :

Get back to the present with the 54321 technique, anxiety is the future or in the past.

Take a moment to breathe deeply, it can affect you in ways you can’t even imagine.

Connect with people when you feel strong enough to, transform experience with digital, call them with video on.

Break down your anxiety, don’t let your amygdala drive your actions, get back to your senses and be grateful of the smalls things life is offering you.

Patience, kindness, this shall pass.

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