Brazil has the highest number of people diagnosed with anxiety disorders in the world, according to a survey carried out by the University of São Paulo (USP) in 2021. With the advancement of measures restrictive due to the pandemic and social isolation, many people have reported worsening symptoms.
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Because of this, we have listed below some simple but proven ways to reduce anxiety.
Valuable lessons against anxiety
It may be associated with other adjacent disorders, such as depression. It can be mild, moderate or intense. However, all human beings have had contact with it, after all, anxiety is a normal response given by our body.
Learn how to control thoughts that are reflections of anxiety as soon as they start to get in your way.
- Being more anxious does not mean giving more importance to it.
Our mind usually plays some tricks. Among them, there is the belief that the more obsessed, sad and anxious about a certain issue, the more you care about it. In psychology, they give it a name: limiting belief. You don't have to suffer to prove to yourself that it's fundamental to you.
That way, feel the fear, because this is normal, but you don't need to self-flagellate to prove to yourself that you care, since you - more than anyone else - know your feelings.
- You don't have to be extraordinary all the time.
In an era of routine spectacularization, full of digital influencers, glamor in social media and stimulus to consumption and the need to discovering ''your best version'' with the speech that you always need to be the best in everything ends up promoting comparisons, low self-esteem and procrastination.
So whenever anxiety arises from excessive self-charge, remember the motto: ' ' done is better than perfect ' '. You don't have to be the best at everything. Go at your own pace, and on inspiration days, you're sure to rock! And do you know when inspiration comes? When we are calm and not under intense pressure to produce.
- Excessive worrying doesn't change anything, it only hurts you
Have you heard of metacognitive therapy? This technique uses strategies to overcome anxiety related to excessive worry and obsessive, disastrous and recurrent thoughts. In this way, therapists seek to convince their patients of the maxim: "my concern, for the more I consider it useful (or completely useless), if it is excessive it will only bring harm to me me. It neither decreases nor increases the likelihood that my fears will come true.” Think about this whenever you worry too much.