At the time this article was published, I would likely be experiencing crushing anxiety that would at times be debilitating and would at times even require the assistance of others to regroup to keep myself under control. My anxiety would greatly interfere with the functioning of myself working or going to day services, but for some reasons both within and outside my control, the anxiety has nearly quenched itself to a near minimum.

It is not that my anxiety is completely obliterated, but the fact that I am better able to recognize that it is only more temporary and that it is just my brain telling me the why and how that it is there. Many times, now at times, I can remind myself that I just need to forget about the things that are causing it because they are oftentimes out of my control and the best thing, I can do for myself is to distract myself from the thought and go to something that I need to work on personally.

This was a critical factor last weekend when I was home for nearly four days without leaving the house because of a snowstorm. I knew that If I did not keep myself busy, I would allow thoughts that had no use to occupy my headspace and cause the looping and ruminating to begin to overtake my daily activities. Keeping a list that I could refer to of things that I could do when my brain started to wonder helped me immensely occupy the time that I had and many times the day went by between mealtimes like a breeze.

Yes, there was those times when anxiety still appeared like the evening before when I had challenging thoughts that caused me to go shortly into flight mode, but I was able to regroup myself by realizing that those thoughts are normal in me and that I need to “sleep on it” and more than likely, they will dimmish in the morning and I will be more ready to set forth on the day.

There have been factors in the past few months that have caused the transition of things and that have at times helped with the lessening of some anxiety. There can be some anxiety at times, but it is nothing that can be helped by taking a moment and realizing the reality of the situation under control and seeing that it isn’t that bad after all.

All in all, anxiety is going to be in my life whether I like it or not. However, it is how I handle it that is what matters in the end. It is mainly by not overreacting when my anxiety is known and wants me to be elevated by knowing to keep my composure and let things be able to work themselves out and see how they go instead of overthinking and drawing numerous conclusions about things that can often be absurd and not at all the reality behind what will happen.

Keeping all of these things in mind will help me in the end realize that there is hope In being able to better manage my anxiety overall and not be able to blow things out of proportion that can at times match the energy with others thus making things out to be worse than what they are. By being able to calmly calculate the reality of the situation will help me be able to understand and accept things as they rise and be able to manage the anxiety in a better way.