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You just have to surrender to it, you just have to relax every muscle of your body and commit to riding the wave of anxiety. The third thing, and this is what I say all the time, you’re probably sick of hearing me say this, but when you get anxiety, you just have to drop all resistance to it. Step 3: Just do your best to drop the resistance and ride the wave Sometimes it’s not anxiety for no reason – it’s anxiety being triggered by something you are not aware of. You weigh up the positive of the medication against the negative of the side effect of anxiety. So, really, it’s one of those things that you just have to counterbalance. You just sort of weigh up the risk like, “Am I going to get on top of this infection and just deal with a little bit of anxiety for a while or am I going to potentially risk my health and run the risk of this infection getting worse?” There have been times where I’ve had no choice but I’ve had to take Keflex and I just know that I’m going to have anxiety for the week or for however long I have to be on those antibiotics. I’ve found previously in the past that there is an antibiotic called Keflex that gives me anxiety as its side effect. Wheat is another big one, there are people that find that gluten can kick off their anxiety and there’s no other reason for it except they’ve eaten gluten that day.Īlso, medications. So, some people find that their anxiety is exacerbated by too much dairy, too much caffeine is one that I get from my anxiety. So I often will ask new clients, “How have you been sleeping lately?” Or, “Have you been doing extra hours at work or is there anything else that could be making you extra tired in your environment?” Your body needs a lot of things to keep it functioning happily and normally and sometimes, little things such as a change in diet or a change in sleeping patterns can be enough to really throw your body off its balance and spark that fight or flight reflex that anxiety reaction that triggers all of this. Sometimes, just being overtired can trigger anxiety. Step 2: Review your triggers when you are getting anxiety for no reason They will do what they can to support each other and give you a solid consistent story even if that means going through anxiety and going through a frightening time. I will scan the environment and see what the threat is.”Īnd if there is no imminent threat then the mind will make up a threat because that’s what you need the equilibrium going and I know that’s horrible but that’s just the way your mind and your body works. So it’s usually the body reaction that comes first and then the body reaction kind of triggers the mind, as in the mind goes, “Ooh, the body is reacting in quite a fight or flight manner. So, it is mind and body but it’s predominantly body so you get the flight or fight reaction, you get the rapid heart rate, the sweating, the trembling, the scared feeling, that adrenaline surge that goes through your body and then that kicks off the thoughts, the raving thoughts, the worries.Įverything that kind of comes together to bring that anxiety reaction. Number one, anxiety is a bodily reaction. Step 1: Understand that anxiety is a body reaction There are three things that I’d like you to bear in mind when you get anxiety for no reason. Why would that be?”Īnd there’s a range of reasons why this could be happening.Īnxiety usually doesn’t have just one specific trigger, it’s usually a range of things which can include a trauma from the distant past that’s been brought up again or something that’s happened more recently that’d be pretty obvious, though.Īnd it’s also things like a tired mind and a tired body that unfortunately come together with a really horrible reaction for your body. I’ve had this recently in a client, they came to me and they said, “I used to get panic attacks when I was much younger and I used CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) to come out of that and it worked really well for me and I haven’t had any panic attacks for the last 10 years and now, suddenly, out of nowhere, I’m getting panic attacks again. However, I know and I’ve experienced myself that sometimes, you get anxiety for no reason. Usually, I’m here talking to you about certain types of anxiety and anxiety that happens for a definite reason or has a definite trigger.