How to get rid of constant anxiety in your soul. Anxiety in the soul - how to get rid of it

Why is your soul restless?

First, you need to calm down and understand that short-term anxiety for no apparent reason is common to all people. As a rule, a state when the soul is restless, anxiety and fear arises, worries a short period of time. However, for some, anxiety can develop into chronic well-being.

Where does anxiety and fear come from? In order to answer this question, it is necessary to understand what anxiety is and what the reasons for its occurrence are.

Anxiety is a brightly colored negative emotion that represents a systematic premonition of negative events and danger; Unlike fear, anxiety does not have a clear reason; a person has a restless soul.

However, the emergence of anxiety is preceded by certain factors; this emotion does not arise out of nowhere, without reason.

Unrest in the soul, fear and anxiety come from the following circumstances:

• changes in the usual way of life;
• unresolved difficult situation;
• health problems;
• exposure to addictions: alcohol, drugs, gambling addiction.

What does feeling anxious mean?

The feeling of unrest in the soul most often implies obsessive fear and anxiety, when a person seems to be “programmed” expecting that something very bad will happen very soon. A person in such a situation is unable to control and justify his actions, and constantly experiences anxiety for no reason. At the slightest feeling of “danger,” an anxious person has an inadequate reaction to irritating factors.

Anxiety and fear bring with them physical ailments such as: throbbing headache, nausea, indigestion (loss of appetite or overeating). When a person is uneasy in his soul, fear and anxiety appear, it becomes difficult to maintain communication with people, to do anything, to realize his aspirations.

The constant experience of anxiety and fear can turn into a chronic disease, when making an important decision will cause another panic attack. In this case, you need to contact a psychologist. His competence includes making a diagnosis and helping on the path to recovery when the soul is restless and fear and anxiety arise.

A restless state of mind, fear and anxiety do not exist without a reason. As a rule, the consequence of such well-being is hidden deep in the subconscious and escapes attention. You can't let the situation take its course. Exacerbation of uncontrollable anxiety and fear entails disruption of the normal functioning of various organs, insomnia, chronic lack of sleep, neurosis, alcohol and even drug addiction.

What does anxiety in the soul mean?

The state of anxiety is characterized by an obsessive feeling that something bad will happen - now or very soon. The severity of this sensation can be so pronounced that a person loses the ability to adequately live a moment in time and is ready to flee in panic from the “impending danger.”

A painful experience brings not only mental pain, but also specific physical disorders - migraines, nausea or even vomiting, eating disorders (bulimia, loss of appetite). The shades of anxiety can be very different, but they are all united by a common destructive effect on the psyche and life of a person. After all, it is difficult to develop and implement intentions when the future and past have united, rising up with frightening unpredictability. What's around that bend? Break? Trap? How to pull yourself together and continue on your way? Where to go, after all, when there is uncertainty and instability everywhere.

The disease becomes alarming when everyday life turns into a series of trials. A little anxiety about a final exam or class, before a wedding or other significant event is a normal reaction to a “milestone” in life. It’s another matter when your mouth gets dry, your hands shake and dark thoughts creep into your head long before hour X or for no apparent reason at all. In such cases, a psychiatrist may even make a diagnosis: “generalized anxiety disorder.”

Pathological anxiety is not caused by any real dangers or problems: it simply arises “out of nothing” when a person gives free rein to his imagination - and the latter, as a rule, helpfully draws negative pictures, and in great detail. In such a situation, a person feels helpless, irritated, tired emotionally and physically, and the state of health can deteriorate very quickly - many people do not know how to get out of this “vicious circle”.

In addition to the symptoms listed above, a person may feel constant tension, his memory and concentration deteriorate, and brain activity decreases; he becomes impatient, gets scared and fusses, gets irritated; in women this manifests itself in frequent mood swings and tearfulness for any reason. Insomnia may appear, nightmares may occur, the muscles of the back and neck ache, the heartbeat quickens, the vision becomes dark, nausea occurs, the palms become wet, the person feels “hot and cold”; some even experience diarrhea, although, in general, there is no infection or other reasons for intestinal upset.

Many of these symptoms are mistaken by specialists for real diseases: for example, a patient with pathological anxiety may show all the signs of bronchial asthma or goiter, throat or heart disease, and then people undergo long and targeted treatment, but the treatment is not beneficial.

Anxiety can develop into a phobia, and then a person begins to be afraid of the most ordinary things and phenomena: open spaces, large numbers of people, buses, dogs, insects, heights or darkness - all this makes life very difficult. Some are afraid to even go to a cafe because they cannot eat and drink surrounded by other people: they have a hard time, literally and figuratively.

Causes of anxiety and fear

Mental illnesses always have “roots” from which any disease progresses.

Psychotherapy, studying a person’s condition, will help to find the true causes of fear and anxiety, which may include:

1. Specifically justified fears, such as anxiety before a significant event (wedding, exams, interview), the loss of a loved one, fear of punishment;
2. Unsolved problem. Often people put off solving unpleasant problems until better times, wanting to delay the annoying moment. “Better times” still don’t come, so the person decides to simply “forget” about the issue. This helps for a short time, but after some time, incomprehensible alarming impulses begin to come from the subconscious, indicating that something is happening wrong, the soul becomes restless, fear and anxiety appear;
3. Misdeeds from the past. The soul is sometimes restless because of shameful offenses committed even in the distant past. If punishment does not overtake the guilty person, after a while conscience takes its toll and begins to give signals of alarm and fear;
4. Experienced emotional shock. Sometimes, during times of misfortune, people begin to dull their emotions and deny the deplorability of the situation. There is a dissonance between consciousness and the unconscious - a person is convinced that everything is in order, but his internal dulled experiences and emotions indicate the opposite. The soul becomes restless, fear and anxiety appear;
5. Low-intensity conflict. A conflict that begins but never ends often becomes the cause of unstable mental unrest, anxiety and fear. A person will worry about possible unexpected attacks from an opponent, expect danger from everywhere, will be restless in his soul, fear and constant anxiety will appear;
6. Addiction to alcohol. As you know, alcohol disrupts the production of happiness hormones - endorphins. A single use of alcohol entails several days of anxiety and fear. When binge drinking, people often fall into depression, from which it is very difficult to get out;
7. Endocrine disorders. A disorder in the functioning of the endocrine system causes a fan of various emotional outbursts, including fear and anxiety.

Causes of anxiety in the soul

The reasons can be very diverse, but let's touch on at least the most common ones.

1. Repressed problem.
   Quite often, people encounter problems that are very difficult for them to solve, or for some reason they don’t want to do it. Then, in order not to spoil their mood once again, people prefer to “forget” about them. This works for a while, but still somewhere on the periphery of a person’s consciousness there remains a tick that something is wrong. It’s the same as turning off a siren when an alarm goes off. It seems like I can’t hear anything, but some red light is blinking.
2. Underestimation of emotional turmoil
   . People often underestimate how much certain situations affect them. For example, a person has some kind of grief, but he begins to deny the importance of this event for himself. If a person acts this way, he can really think that everything is fine with him. The problem is that his emotions don't think so.
3. Sluggish conflict situation
   . It happens that in a person’s life a conflict has arisen that is in an implicit, hidden form. It seems like nothing concrete, but there is a feeling that “clouds are gathering.”
4. Change of environment
   .
   Sometimes, some detail changes in life, which seems to be unnoticeable, but something is wrong. This is just an example of the “security algorithm” working. As in Vysotsky’s song “The same forest, the same air, and the same water, only he did not return from the battle.”
   The problem is that we often don't realize that something is important to us and when it disappears, anxiety arises.
5. Neurosis
   . If you do nothing about the feeling of anxiety, it can develop into a new quality that will be chronic in nature. For example, anxiety may begin to be associated with some extraneous event. As a result, a phobia may develop.
6. Alcohol abuse
   . Sometimes, anxiety is purely chemical in nature. For example, overindulging can cause brain chemistry to become unbalanced. The production of “happiness hormones” is disrupted and a person feels this as anxiety in the soul. One evening with alcohol can cost five days of oppressive anxious feelings. If a person begins to fill this feeling with alcohol again, then he begins to fall into an “emotional debt hole,” which can end in alcoholic psychosis.
7. Endocrine disorders
   . Quite often there is a situation when a person has problems with the functioning of the endocrine glands. This can cause a variety of emotional reactions, including depression and anxiety.

Symptoms of the condition

It is usually not difficult to detect signs of anxious behavior, but to understand the situation it is still necessary to voice them:

• depressed mood, restless soul;
• loss of interest in a favorite activity;
• migraine;
• insomnia;
• rapid heartbeat;
• trembling, fear;
• sudden physical activity;
• excessive sweating.

The result of inaction in such a situation is sometimes prolonged depression, deterioration of appearance (bags under the eyes, anorexia, hair loss).

We must not forget that anxiety and fear may be part of a more serious disease, which can only be identified through a full examination in a medical facility.

If you feel your soul becoming more and more restless day by day, you must immediately begin to take action. First, it is best to undergo a full examination of the functioning of the body in order to exclude the possibility of a restless state due to illness. If no abnormalities in health are found, it is worth moving on to looking for the causes of fears that are on a subconscious level.

Treating Anxiety

Which doctor should I contact if anxiety does not go away and the condition gets worse?

The examination will have to be carried out in full: first you can go to a therapist or neurologist, take tests, etc., and then they will refer you further - to a psychotherapist or psychiatrist. In some cases, when a person is constantly in a bad mood, behavior becomes inappropriate and hallucinations appear, a psychiatrist should be contacted immediately: if he himself cannot do this, people close to him can even call an ambulance.

There will be an earthquake, some say. And scientists cannot say when this will happen, because they also do not know with accuracy. When will this happen, in five weeks or in five months? All over Greece they say that you should not sleep in houses, under a roof, in case this happens at night. Everyone is waiting. They are waiting and afraid. The panic that arises around an earthquake can ultimately lead to more disastrous consequences than the earthquake itself.

All this happens because we do not have real faith. If you truly believe in God, then you are not tormented by anxiety about what will happen tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. What you need to know, the Lord has already told you. He said not only about what will happen tomorrow, but also what will happen when the end of the world comes, he told you about the Second Coming, he did everything so that you would not worry and would know that there is a Kingdom of God, which, I hope, awaits you; You also know that there is a place far from God - this place is called hell. The Lord told you what is necessary and useful, but you don’t need to know about anything else. Why?

Because God is merciful and humane. He knows and understands us because He Himself was a Man. This means that you too must be humane, understand the other and not burden him, because the Lord does not burden us, does not burden us with His worries and His knowledge, because we cannot bear them. He gives us only what we can bear and does not want to create anxiety in us. The Lord has not told us when the second coming will occur because He knows it will disturb us. God wants us to know what we may encounter in life, so that we are always ready to strive calmly, peacefully, humbly, with trust, and when He comes, we can meet Him with joy. If every day you live brings you closer to God, then whatever happens, let it happen.

How strange our life has become! Instead of making it heaven, we turned it into hell. We have everything, but we worry all the time; if there is one car in the house, they worry about one; if there are more, the anxiety increases in proportion to the number of cars parked near the house. If you have a dacha, there is another concern: that it will not be robbed. You set the alarm, and again you worry: what will happen, will it fail? We have perfect locks in our houses, electronic tracking systems, alarms, dogs that watch and guard our balcony, garden, parking lot... And how many insurance companies are there now! You can insure anything. And yet our soul is troubled, we cannot sleep peacefully. We feel constant discomfort, something is happening to us. Many people experience physical problems from constant stress. They feel a heaviness in their hearts, their blood pressure rises, and they can’t breathe. All these are diseases of the soul that affect the body. When the soul is confused, it also confuses the body. When the body is restless, the soul is tormented. All this is interconnected.

When you can understand that what worries you is not as important as it seems, you will stop worrying. After all, you experience anxiety when you think that what worries you is a problem of global significance. Every day you wait and say: “This must definitely happen!” And if the expected event does not happen, you will get sick. For example, you really want to go for a walk. Great, but this walk is not the meaning of your whole life. Circumstances may turn out to be such that you cannot choose the time to go for a walk. But if you put your soul into it and strive for a walk at any cost, you will be painfully worried if this does not happen. But it’s so easy to say to yourself: “It didn’t work out, well, no big deal, next time!” If our soul becomes so flexible that we can calmly, without persisting, change our plans, change our decisions, then no matter what happens, we will learn to accept it calmly, saying: “Great, the Lord sent this to me! I wanted one thing, but God gave me another. So it was God’s will!”

We, basically, prefer to achieve everything by force, show perseverance, insist on our own, and are very worried about our failure. I noticed this one day when I wanted to buy myself a book that interested me. I went to the bookstore but didn't find it there. Then I went to another store, but my searches there were unsuccessful. Time flew by and bookstores began to close. I began to worry, to rush to achieve my goal and still buy this book. I went to the third store, but she wasn’t there either. I was nervous, I told myself: “I urgently need to go to another store, I need to hurry, in case I don’t have time and it closes!” And at some point, when I was almost running along the road, I suddenly thought: “Let’s say that I’m lucky and I finally buy this book. Am I going to read it right now? No. Why not buy it later then? Let's say tomorrow." And I calmed down.

Also effective is any hobby that brings pleasure and allows you to relax, for example, for some, such a hobby is a pet that needs to be looked after and walked with. Or it could be knitting, cooking or blogging, photography or painting, each has its own exciting hobby with which you can forget about time and switch your attention.

PSYCHOLOGIST'S OPINION: AN OLD PROBLEM

Such unrest may be associated with traumatic situations that happened in the past. If a problem is not solved in 28 days (scientists have found that it is after this period that a person stops holding the problem in consciousness and it goes into the subconscious), then it will become chronic, but will still affect us, although not acutely.

WHAT TO DO.

If you cannot understand what particular problem from the past is preventing you from living, contact a psychoanalyst: he will help you find it and solve it. If the problem is no longer solvable, then you will have to change your attitude towards it. A psychotherapist will help with this: he will not give specific advice, but will lead you to find a way out yourself.

During therapy, the client learns self-analysis, begins to better understand the nature of his emotions and their relationship with current and past events in his life. Emotions and behavior are closely interrelated. With the help of a psychotherapist, you will be able to see the absurdity and groundlessness of your fears, as well as the inadequacy and excessiveness of your reaction to disturbing events.

Very often, vague anxiety is caused by suppressed, blocked emotions associated with events experienced in the past. A specialist will help you express your sincere feelings - very often these are suppressed anger, shame, grief, guilt. This will help cope with increased anxiety and your fears.

Anxiety decreases

when there is certainty.
For example, when moving to a new job and not yet knowing its “cuisine”, we do everything according to strict rules. When a baby is born and faced with our inexperience in the newly acquired role of a young mother, we use rules for caring for a newborn, educational rules, then educational ones. To avoid potential dangers, we lock ourselves in our apartments after working out the daily route “Home - Work - Home”. Therefore, one day becomes similar to another. We become bored, but at the same time comfortable, because the space we create is safe. This is how we unconsciously run away from anxiety by creating a familiar comfort zone
. But you need to know that real miracles happen outside your comfort zone.

After all, when anxiety about the future decreases, a lot of joy and pleasure arises from the present.

Now for each answer “yes” to statements from the 14th to the 50th, award 1 point. For the answer “no” to statements 1 to 13, also give 1 point. Other answers do not give points. Then calculate the amount.

If the total score is from 0 to 5 points, this indicates a low level of anxiety.

From 15 to 25 points - an average level of anxiety, even with a tendency to low.

From 25 to 40 indicates a high level of anxiety, you should pay attention to your prevailing emotional state and begin to take measures to change either your own perception of circumstances or the circumstances of life themselves.

A score of 40 to 50 is considered a very high level of anxiety, which can lead not only to a constantly depressed mood, but also to health problems. Here it is advisable to think about visiting a specialist in psychology or psychotherapy, otherwise the condition will not change for the better.

Every second person in the world experiences a feeling of anxiety in their souls, while many consider it necessary to come to terms with this condition, and some are looking with hope for how to get rid of it.

How to remove anxiety from your soul - basic recommendations

1. How do you react when you realize that there is not a drop of peace in your soul, but only anxiety? That's right, you start to get nervous and worry. This will not solve the problems that have arisen. On the contrary, they will double. Remember for yourself that any incident is neutral. Only man gives it color. So, for some, dismissal is a gift of fate, but for others it brings suffering. Emerging, incl. anxiety are nothing more than the result of personal perception of reality. Your attitude towards many vital things determines everything, so don’t worry about anything, but act.
2. If it is difficult for you to determine the cause of the feeling of anxiety in your soul, you should occupy yourself with something, even if it is insignificant, but brings pleasure. Then ask yourself: “When did you feel this anxious state? After what events did it arise?” Ask yourself, carry on the conversation until you find, in your opinion, the truth.
3. Having found the anxiety factor, organize a meeting with your own, asking a question, for example: “What will happen if he thinks that I did it?” Imagine the consequences. Write them down. Find them a solution.
4. It is possible that certain beliefs cause anxiety. Having written down a list of possible reasons that caused an unpleasant aftertaste in your soul, stop at each and ask yourself: “Is this really so? Am I absolutely sure of this? How do I feel as a result of this thought? If she wasn’t there, how would I feel?”

Anxiety takes away strength, thoughts, and the ability to react to a situation and look for opportunities to solve it. Anxiety drives you into depression and acutely makes you feel your own helplessness and insignificance. Is there a way to get rid of this oppressive state?

According to many psychologists, anxiety has a greater destructive effect than even depression. A state of constant tension, anticipation of something terrible, the absence of the slightest opportunity for relaxation, the inability to make the right decision and generally take at least some action that can overcome the feeling of anxiety and get out of this difficult psychological state - this is how people who experience constant stress describe their feelings. sense of anxiety. This exhausting, depressing feeling contributes to the development of various psychosomatic diseases, sleep disorders, digestion disorders, physical and mental activity. That is why it is so important not only to identify in advance the slightest manifestations of anxiety and immediately begin treatment when its main symptoms occur. To overcome anxiety caused by stress, psychologists recommend using several methods that will help cope with the first symptoms of anxiety:

Recognize the existence of the “lizard brain.”

It means coming to terms with the fact that our fears, concerns and our anxiety come from a small part of the brain called the amygdala, which is responsible for the emergence of primitive reactions and feelings. Of course, our thoughts, decisions and actions in a normal situation arise in the frontal lobes of the brain, the part of the brain that is responsible for cognition, learning and logic in reasoning and actions. But as soon as a threat arises to our basic needs (our life, health, well-being of loved ones and relatives), logic is powerless, we are overwhelmed by feelings and emotions that have very deep roots and we act more instinctively than judiciously. What solution can be found in this situation? Every time you feel your hands getting cold, your stomach shrinks into a tight ball, and words begin to get stuck in your throat, in general, feeling a full set of approaching alarming symptoms, it’s worth remembering that now the situation is controlled by the “lizard brain,” and not by us. It's worth remembering this and talking to this overly dramatic creature and offering to take control! Realizing that you can find a way out of any situation, you just need to think about what resources we have at the moment, you can return to logical reasoning, ceasing to be afraid and worried about who knows what.

Understand the cause of anxiety: try to find out what causes your anxiety, why you feel anxious and what it is aimed at.

Having found out what your anxiety is, where it came from, in other words, what or who you are worried about, it is much easier to stop worrying and think about what can be done to neutralize the alarming situation in which you find yourself. It might be worth calling the family whose trip you're worried about to find out how they're doing, sending an SMS to a child who's late from school, talking directly to your boss to clarify your situation at work.

Do breathing exercises.

They are necessary to calm down and pull yourself together. The principle of these breathing exercises is quite simple: you need to consistently inhale through your mouth, hold your breath, then exhale through your nose and hold your breath again; only the abdominal muscles should work, not the chest. The main task is to relax all the muscles of your body as much as possible while inhaling and focus on the state of relaxation that gradually covers you during the process of performing this exercise.

Imagine the most terrible outcome for your alarming situation, what could happen to you in this situation and accept it.

Try to feel what you might feel if the ending were like this. Calm down, don't forget about breathing exercises. Now imagine how you will act in this situation, find all possible solutions and ways out of this situation. See how you can fix everything. By preparing in this way, you can stop worrying and worrying and start taking action. So, instead of anxiety and a feeling of fear, you were prepared for the worst outcome of the situation and were able to find a solution for it, although the situation may not happen! Is it worth worrying about minor troubles now?

Distract yourself from any source of anxiety.

Stop watching news coverage of disaster scenes if you are worried about them. You shouldn’t increase your own anxiety by looking at the nightmarish pictures in the news. This will make you even more anxious. Find yourself a hobby that can captivate you, try to avoid topics that cause you anxiety when communicating with family and friends. Hang out with people who exude confidence and a positive attitude, watch interesting movies, take up new sports, start collecting stamps, or join any environmental society.

Write a letter to yourself.

In the letter, list your worries, the reasons for them, and the decisions you are going to make to stop worrying.

Time management: Divide the day into minutes and hours.

This gradation will allow you to escape from disturbing thoughts, especially eating. Your whole day will be busy with some important and not so important things. By concentrating on them, you can safely set yourself not to worry until tomorrow, almost as Scarlet did from the movie “Gone with the Wind.”

Eat tasty and healthy food.

Limiting diets in order to lose weight, become slimmer and more attractive, especially if the decision to “go on a diet” was made independently, without the necessary recommendations from doctors, can play a bad joke on your mood. There are enough other things to worry about in this world than adding a few extra grams to your weight. Your body will thank you if you do not burden it with diets, but create a balanced diet that includes vitamins and minerals that your body is used to receiving in full.

Double your physical activity.

Running, swimming, skydiving, cycling and mandatory evening or morning jogging - any physical activity will help you cope with anxiety. No matter how good you are at this sport, just do it consistently and to the point that your doubts and worries fade into the background. It doesn’t matter what exactly you do - aerobics or weeding in the garden, the main thing is a combination of determination and physical activity that can distract you from anxious thoughts.

Use visual anchor images.

Choose an image that suits you that represents calm and relaxation. For example, clouds, with their measured and smooth flow across the sky, or the deep calm of the ocean, its waves gradually rolling onto the sandy shore. Every time you look at a picture of the ocean or look out the window at the clouds, you will feel that they are helping you calm down and stop worrying.

Repeat your own mantra.

For everyone it is different, the one that brings peace and serenity.
For example, in a wonderful cartoon, Carlson loved to repeat “It’s not a big deal, it’s just an everyday matter,” and he blithely waved his hand, turning away from the newly broken toy, which threatened to turn into a disaster for the Kid. Come up with any phrase for yourself that will help you overcome the approaching anxiety and remind you that you can always find a way out of any situation, the main thing is to know that it is possible! Photo source:
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Help from a psychologist for anxiety

When people are uneasy in their souls, they turn to a psychologist (not to be confused with a psychiatrist). A psychologist is not a doctor; he does not write prescriptions or make diagnoses. The field of activity of professional psychologists is stressful situations, constant fears, panic attacks, anxiety, communication problems. A specialist is able to provide not only verbal support, but also real help.

A specialist will help identify those thoughts that automatically fly through a person’s brain that cause such a feeling as “restless in the soul.” This provides a person with the opportunity to look at a problem that has tormented him all the time from a different angle, analyze its meaning, and change his opinion about it. This procedure will relieve anxiety and fear.

At the first psychotherapy session, a psychological diagnosis is performed. As a result, it should be: the true causes of anxiety and fear are found and a plan for treating the disorder is drawn up. During the treatment process, the specialist uses not only verbal methods of persuasion, but also pre-designed exercises. After completing the exercises, a person should acquire new, more adequate reactions to various kinds of stimuli.

To get rid of anxiety and fear, it is enough to make 6-20 visits to a psychologist. The number of required sessions is selected based on the stage of the psychological disorder and the individual characteristics of the person.

Note! It has been proven that the first signs of improvement appear after 2-3 sessions.

Drug treatment

Antidepressants, tranquilizers and antipsychotics can eliminate the symptoms, but not the cause of a restless state of mind. The drugs relieve all symptoms of anxiety and fear and restore normal sleep patterns. However, these drugs are not as harmless as they seem: they are persistently addictive, entail many unpleasant side effects, and weight gain.

The effectiveness of using traditional medicine will also not be able to eliminate the true motives of hidden fears and anxiety. Folk remedies are not as effective as the above-mentioned medications, but they are safer in terms of harmful consequences and relieve a restless state of mind.

Important! Before using any medications, you should consult a specialist.

Normalization of lifestyle

Psychological problems are directly related to the work of our body, all its systems as a whole. If any system fails, this fact is reflected in our mental state.

To successfully recover from a mental disorder, you need to follow a few simple rules:

1. Get enough sleep. It's no secret that healthy sleep for a person is 8 hours a day. During sleep, a person rests both mentally and physically. Problems, fear and anxiety that tormented you during the day can be unexpectedly resolved in a dream - a rested brain provides answers to questions that hovered during the day. A person’s mood, appearance, health, tone directly depend on sleep;
2. Eat right. Vitamin deficiency, that is, insufficient consumption of seasonal vitamins, negatively affects health, both physical and psychological. For problems associated with anxiety in the soul, special attention should be paid to foods that promote the production of the hormone serotonin;
3. Be physically active. Regularly performing simple physical exercises will improve the metabolic process in the body, which is closely related to the mental component of human health;
4. Breathe fresh air, take walks for at least an hour a day;
5. Limit or completely avoid the use of alcoholic beverages, cigarettes and other substances that cause unhealthy mental activity. As mentioned earlier, the substances they contain have a depressing effect on the psyche, causing anxiety and fear.

Anxiety in my soul. What to do?

Where does anxiety in the soul come from? Many people begin to experience some kind of oppressive feeling. Everything seems to be normal, we don’t see any problems, but there is a feeling in our hearts as if something terrible is about to happen. Sound familiar?

You are not alone. Almost all people experience this feeling throughout their lives, but some experience it chronically. To answer the question of what to do about this, you first need to understand what anxiety actually is.

Anxiety is a feeling related to fear, but unlike it, it does not have a clear cause.

However, this does not mean that there is no reason. There is always a reason. This could be some unresolved life situation, health problems, something changed in the environment, as well as abuse of various psychoactive substances.

Is there anxiety in the soul for no reason?

Many clients come to me having been feeling anxious for several months. They often say that everything in their life seems to be normal, there is no reason for alarm, but it always turns out in the end that this is actually not the case.

Each person’s psyche contains special algorithms that allow them to identify dangerous moments in life. Some of them are genetically embedded in us, but many are shaped by our experiences.

We constantly perceive a huge amount of information, but much of it does not reach our consciousness. However, our brain still processes it. In case some information did not reach our consciousness, but the “forget” algorithm worked. For a while, this works, but still, somewhere on the periphery of a person’s consciousness, there remains a tick that something is wrong.

It's the same as turning off the siren when the alarm goes off. It seems like I can’t hear anything, but some red light is blinking.

What to do with anxiety in your soul?

Dealing with anxiety is a long and multidimensional process that requires the work of a specialist. However, if for some reason you cannot contact a psychologist, you can try to cope with it yourself.

The first thing you should do is check your health. Sign up for a clinic and see the doctors. It's useful anyway. Only after you have ruled out health-related causes can you move on to working directly with anxiety.

• Normalize your lifestyle.

The work of our psyche is closely connected with the body. Many causes of mental problems are related to poor lifestyle choices.

1. Normalize your sleep schedule. A person should sleep at least 8 hours. If this is not done, then an imbalance appears in the body. The production of neurotransmitters and hormones is disrupted, which is directly related to mood, mental and physical tone, and health.
2. Normalize your diet. If the body receives an insufficient amount of nutrients, vitamins, etc., this also has a very serious impact on our physical and psychological health. Eat more cheese and cottage cheese, this promotes the production of serotonin.
3. Normalize physical activity. Physical activity is a necessary condition for normalizing metabolic processes in the body, which are very closely related to the human psyche.
4. Spend at least one hour a day outdoors.
5. Do not consume alcohol, tobacco or other psychoactive substances. They depress the nervous system.

If you follow these recommendations, then the anxiety in your soul will definitely decrease a little, due to the fact that the resource of your psyche will increase.

• Remember the events that happened immediately before the anxiety appeared.

Quite often, people do not connect the situation with their emotional state. They say: “No! This has nothing to do with it!” Quite often it turns out to be quite the opposite.

Ask yourself questions:

1. Did you quarrel with someone?
2. Have you received any critical comments? Fair?
3. Do you have any problems in your life that have been unresolved for years?
4. Do you have any “debt” (in the broad sense)?
5. Have you experienced severe emotional distress?

Try to answer these questions honestly. You may notice something that was hidden from you. There are things in people's lives that they don't want to know about, but which still affect them.

If this does not help, then you should consult a psychologist.

How can a psychologist help treat anxiety?

There is a direction in psychotherapy that has shown the highest effectiveness in the treatment of anxiety disorders. This direction is called CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Psychotherapy).

This is the only type of psychotherapy that is not built on speculative ideas, but on a solid empirical and scientific basis. There are many scientific studies that have proven the effectiveness of this method. Therefore, I recommend contacting specialists in this field, to whom I include myself.

How it works?

During the day, a person thinks about 60,000–70,000 thoughts. Only some of them are conscious to us, since most of them pass in a split second. However, any thought we have, whether conscious or not, evokes an emotional response in us.

Such lightning-fast thoughts are called automatic thoughts. Quite often we automatically think about something bad and begin to look at the world through dark glasses.

A psychologist can help identify and correct such automatic thoughts, which allows a person to change their perspective on the problem. This in turn removes anxiety.

This is achieved not just by talking, but also by special exercises that allow a person to develop a new, more adaptive reaction to various stimuli.

In addition to automatic thoughts, various destructive beliefs can cause anxiety in the soul. The psychologist can identify them, present them to the client and offer something more valuable in return.

All together this provides the highest effectiveness in the treatment of anxiety disorders. These are not some speculative ideas, but the result of empirical scientific research.

The effectiveness of cognitive behavioral psychotherapy has been confirmed by 452 scientific studies. Therefore, if you want to get rid of anxiety quickly and for a long time, then this is exactly what you need.

Good luck!

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The following tips will help you find peace in your soul and relieve fear and anxiety:

1. Treat other people with love and care. Try to displace accumulated fears, bitterness and resentment from your heart. Notice the positive qualities in people and treat them kindly. When you are able to establish relationships with people, unjustified fears of ridicule, envy, disrespect will disappear from your consciousness, and the restless state of mind will pass;
2. Treat problems not as overwhelming difficulties, but as an opportunity to once again prove yourself on the positive side;
3. Don’t hold a grudge against people, be able to forgive the mistakes they have made. Peace of mind can be achieved by forgiving not only the people around you, but also yourself - you don’t need to reproach yourself for years for mistakes you’ve made or a missed opportunity.
4. You can read a prayer when your soul is uneasy, turn to God;
5. Enjoy small pleasant things. Minor things noticed can maintain your mood and state of mind at the proper level, forget about anxiety and fear;
6. Set goals using the phrase “I want” rather than “I have to”. Debt always causes unpleasant associations, since it is obligatory. “I want” is a goal, as a result of which you can achieve the desired reward.