Ways to calm anxiety attack

Control, or rather, seeking to have control, is a form of anxiety.

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It is rooted in the default, and often unconscious belief or feeling that “I am not going to be okay” or “Things will not be okay.” When this is your default belief — perhaps because of life experiences in which things felt scarily out of your control and led to loss, chaos, instability, or despair — you may have adopted one of two coping mechanisms in an attempt to feel that you, or things, will be okay.

First, you may attempt to control as much of your environment as possible with the unconscious thought that if you know what to expect, or if things happen the way you think they should or you want them to, then you will be okay.

This takes the form of having rigid expectations of how things should be done, believing there is a right way to do things while everything else is the wrong way, over-preparing and over-researching in pursuit of the “right” choice or outcome, or struggling to relax if anything in your immediate environment is unattended to (such as dirty dishes in the sink or laundry that needs to be f

when anxiety gets out of control

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