How to get rid of fear. How to get rid of feelings of fear and anxiety

Today we will talk about how to get rid of fear of a very different nature: fear of death, fear of animals or insects, phobia associated with illness, injury, death as a result of an accident, etc.

In this article, I will not only talk about techniques that will help you overcome fear, but also how to properly deal with feelings of fear and how to change your life so that there is less room for anxiety in it.

I myself had to go through many fears, especially during that period of my life when I experienced. I was afraid to die or go crazy. I was afraid that my health would come to a complete disrepair. I was afraid of dogs. I was afraid of so many things.

Since then, some of my fears have completely disappeared. Some fears I learned to control. I have learned to live with other fears. I have done a lot of work on myself. I hope my experience, which I will present in this article, will help you.

Where does fear come from?

Since ancient times, the mechanism of the emergence of fear has performed a protective function. He protected us from danger. Many people are instinctively afraid of snakes, because this quality was inherited from their ancestors. After all, those who were afraid of these animals and, as a result, avoided them, were more likely not to die from a poisonous bite than those who showed fearlessness in relation to crawling creatures. Fear helped those who experienced it survive and pass this quality on to their offspring. After all, only the living can reproduce.

Fear makes people feel an intense desire to flee when faced with something that their brain perceives as danger. Many people are afraid of heights. But they cannot help but guess about it, until they are high for the first time. Their legs will instinctively give way. The brain will give alarm signals. The person will long to leave this place.

But fear helps not only protect yourself from danger during its occurrence. It allows a person to avoid even potential danger wherever possible.

Anyone who is mortally afraid of heights will no longer climb onto the roof, as he will remember what strong unpleasant emotions he experienced when he was there last time. And thus, perhaps save yourself from the risk of death as a result of a fall.

Unfortunately, since the time of our distant ancestors, the environment in which we live has changed a lot. And fear does not always meet the goals of our survival. And even if he answers, it does not contribute to our happiness and comfort.

People experience many social fears that prevent them from achieving their goals. Often they are afraid of those things that do not pose any threat. Or this threat is negligible.

The chance of dying in a passenger plane crash is about one in 8 million. However, many people are afraid to travel by air. Getting to know another person is not fraught with any threat, but many men or women experience great anxiety when they are around other people.

Many quite ordinary fears can go into an uncontrollable form. The natural concern for the safety of their children can turn into acute paranoia. The fear of losing one's life or hurting oneself sometimes turns into a mania, an obsession with safety. Some people spend a lot of their time in seclusion, trying to protect themselves from the dangers that supposedly lie in wait on the street.

We see that the natural mechanism formed by evolution often interferes with us. Many fears do not protect us, but rather make us vulnerable. So you need to intervene in this process. Next, I will tell you how to do it.

Method 1 - Stop being afraid of fear

The first tips will help you understand fear correctly.

You ask me: “I just want to stop being afraid of mice, spiders, open or closed spaces. Are you suggesting that we just stop being afraid of fear itself?”

What reactions does a person feel fear? As we found out earlier this:

1. Desire to eliminate the object of fear. (If a person is afraid of snakes, will he run away? when he sees them
2. Reluctance to repeat this feeling (A person will avoid snakes wherever possible, not build a dwelling near their lair, etc.)

These two reactions are prompted by our instincts. A person who fears death in a plane crash will instinctively avoid airplanes. But if he suddenly has to fly somewhere, he will try to do everything so as not to feel fear. For example, he will get drunk, drink sedative pills, ask someone to calm him down. He will do this because he is afraid of the feeling of fear.

But in the context of fear management, this behavior often doesn't make any sense. After all, the fight against fear is a fight against instincts. And if we want to defeat the instincts, we should not be guided by their logic, which is indicated in the two paragraphs above.

Of course, during a panic attack, the most logical behavior for us is to run away or try to get rid of a fear attack. But this logic is whispered to us by our instincts, which we must defeat!

It is precisely because during attacks of fear that people behave as their "inside" tells them, they cannot get rid of these fears. They go to the doctor, sign up for hypnosis and say: “I never want to experience this again! Fear is tormenting me! I want to stop being afraid! Get me out of this!" Some methods can help them for a while, but all the same, fear can return to them in one form or another. Because they listened to their instincts, which told them: “Be afraid of fear! You can only be free when you get rid of him!”

It turns out that many people cannot get rid of fear, because they, first of all, seek to get rid of it! Let me explain this paradox now.

Fear is just a program

Imagine that you have invented a robot that cleans the floors of your house, including the balcony. The robot can estimate the height at which it is located by means of the reflection of radio signals. And so that he does not fall off the edge of the balcony, you programmed him in such a way that his brain gives him a signal to stop if he is on the border of the height difference.

You left home and left the robot to clean up. What did you find when you returned? The robot was frozen on the threshold between your room and the kitchen and was unable to cross it due to the slight height difference! The signal in his brain told him to stop!

If the robot had "reason", "consciousness", he would understand that there is no danger at the border of two rooms, since the height is small. And then he could cross it, despite the fact that the brain continues to signal danger! The consciousness of a robot would simply not obey the absurd order of its brain.

A person has a consciousness, which is also not obliged to follow the commands of his "primitive" brain. And the first thing you must do if you want to get rid of fear is stop trusting fear, stop perceiving it as a guide to action, stop being afraid of it. You need to act a little in a paradoxical way, and not in the way your instinct tells you.

After all, fear is just a feeling. Roughly speaking, this is the same program that the robot from our example executes when it approaches the balcony. This is a program that your brain starts at a chemical level (with the help of adrenaline, for example), after it receives information from your senses.

Fear is just a stream of chemical signals that are translated into commands for your body.

But your mind, despite the operation of the program, can itself understand in which cases it encountered a real danger, and in which situations it deals with a failure in the “instinctive program” (approximately the same failure that occurred with the robot when it could not climb over over the threshold).

If you experience fear, it does not mean that there is some danger. You should not always trust all your senses, as they often deceive you. Do not run away from a non-existent danger, do not seek to calm this feeling somehow. Try to just calmly wait until the "siren" ("alarm! save yourself!") in your head is silent. Often this will just be a false alarm.

And it is in this direction that you must move in the first place if you want to get rid of fear. In the direction of allowing your consciousness, and not the “primitive” brain, to make decisions (get on a plane, approach an unfamiliar girl).

After all, there is nothing wrong with this feeling! There is nothing wrong with fear! It's just chemistry! It's an illusion! There is nothing terrible in having this feeling sometimes.

Being afraid is normal. No need to seek to immediately get rid of fear (or from what this fear causes). Because in case you only think about how to get rid of him, you follow his lead, you listen to what he tells you, you obey him, you take it seriously. You think: "I'm afraid to fly on a plane, so I won't fly" or "I'll fly on a plane only when I stop being afraid of flying", "because I believe in fear and I'm afraid of it." And then you keep feeding your fear! You can stop feeding him if only you stop betraying him of great importance.

When you think: “I'm afraid to fly on a plane, but I'll still fly on it. And I will not be afraid of an attack of fear, because, it's just a feeling, chemistry, a game of my instincts. Let him come, because there is nothing terrible in fear! Then you stop giving in to fear.

You will get rid of fear only when you stop wanting to get rid of it and will live with it!

Breaking the vicious circle

I have already spoken about this example from my life more than once and I will repeat it again here. I took the first step towards getting rid of panic attacks, like sudden attacks of fear, only when I stopped obsessing about getting rid of it! I began to think: “Let the attacks come. This fear is just an illusion. I can survive these attacks, there is nothing terrible in them.

And then I stopped being afraid of them, I became ready for them. For four years I followed their lead, thinking: “when will this end, when will the attacks go away, what should I do?” But when I applied tactics against them that were contrary to the logic of my instincts, when I stopped driving away fear, only then did it begin to go away!

Our instincts lure us into a trap. Of course, this thoughtless program of the body is aimed at making us obey it (roughly speaking, the instincts “want” us to obey them), so that we are afraid of the appearance of fear, and not accept it. But that only makes the whole situation worse.

When we start to fear our fears, take them seriously, we only make them stronger. Fear of fear only increases the total amount of fear and even provokes fear itself. I personally saw the truth of this principle when I suffered from panic attacks. The more I was afraid of new attacks of fear, the more often they happened.

With my fear of seizures, I only spurred the fear that occurs during a panic attack. These two fears (fear itself and the fear of fear) are connected by positive feedback and reinforce each other.

The person covered by them falls into a vicious circle. He is afraid of new attacks and thus causes them, and attacks, in turn, cause even greater fear of them! We can get out of this vicious circle if we remove the fear of fear, and not fear itself, as many people want. Since we can influence this type of fear much more than fear in its purest form.

If we talk about fear in its “pure form”, then it often does not have a very large weight in the totality of fear. I want to say that if we are not afraid of him, then it is easier for us to survive these unpleasant sensations. Fear ceases to be "terrible".

Don't worry if you don't quite understand these conclusions, or if you don't really understand how to achieve this attitude towards your fear. Such an understanding will not come immediately. But you will be able to understand this better when you read my following tips and apply the recommendations from them.

Method 2 - Think long term

I gave this advice in my last article. Here I will dwell on this point in more detail.

Perhaps this advice will not help to cope with every fear, but with some anxieties it will help to cope. The fact is that when we are afraid, we tend to think about the very moment of realization of our fear, and not about what may await us in the future.

Suppose you are afraid of losing your job. It provides you with comfortable working conditions, and the salary at this place allows you to buy the things that you want to have. At the thought that you will lose it, fear seizes you. You immediately imagine how you will have to look for another job that may pay worse than the one you lost. You will no longer be able to spend as much money as you used to spend, and this causes you anxiety.

But instead of imagining how bad it will be for you when you lose your job, think about what will happen next. Mentally cross the line that you are afraid to cross. Let's say you lose your job. Ask yourself what will be in the future? Imagine your future over an extended period of time with all the nuances.

You will start looking for a new job. It is not at all necessary that you will not find a job with the same salary. There is a chance that you will find even a higher paying place. You cannot know for sure how much you are willing to offer a specialist of your level in other companies until you go to interviews.

Even if you have to work for less money, so what? You may not be able to frequent expensive restaurants for a while. You will buy cheaper food than you used to buy, prefer to rest in your country house or at a friend's cottage instead of abroad. I understand that now it seems scary to you, because you are used to living differently. But a person always gets used to everything. The time will come and you will get used to it, just as you are used to many things in your life. But, it is quite possible that this situation will not last your whole life, you can achieve a promotion in a new job!

When a child's toy is taken away from him, he stamps his foot and cries because he cannot realize that in the future (maybe in a couple of days) he will get used to the absence of this toy and he will have other, more interesting things. Because the child becomes a hostage to his momentary emotions and cannot think in the future!

Don't become this child. Think constructively about the objects of your fear.

If you are afraid that your husband will betray you and leave you for another woman, think about it? Millions of couples break up and no one dies from it. You will suffer for a while, but then you will begin to live a new life. After all, all human emotions are temporary! Don't be afraid of these emotions. They will come and go.

Imagine a real picture in your head: how you will live, how you will get out of suffering, how you will make new interesting acquaintances, how you will have a chance to correct the mistakes of the past! Think about prospects, not about failures! About new happiness, not suffering!

Method 3 - Be Prepared

When I'm nervous on a plane that's coming in, it doesn't help me much to think about the statistics of plane crashes. So what if accidents happen rarely? So what of the fact that getting to the airport by car is statistically more life-threatening than flying by plane? These thoughts do not save me in those moments when the plane starts to shake or it continues to circle over the airport. Any person who experiences this fear will understand me.

In such situations, fear makes us think: “what if I am now on exactly one of the eight million flights that should turn into a disaster?” And no statistics can help. After all, improbable does not mean impossible! In this life, everything is possible, so you need to be prepared for everything.
Trying to reassure yourself, like “everything will be fine, nothing will happen” usually does not help. Because such exhortations are lies. And the truth is that it will happen, anything can happen! And you need to accept it.

“Not a very optimistic conclusion for an article about getting rid of fear” - You might think.

In fact, everything is not so bad, willingness helps to overcome fear. And do you know what train of thought helps me out on such intense flights? I think, “Airplanes really rarely crash. It is very unlikely that something bad will happen right now. But, nevertheless, it is possible. At worst, I'll die. But I still have to die at some point. Death is inevitable in any case. It ends every human life. The catastrophe will simply bring closer what will happen someday with 100% probability anyway.

As you can see, being prepared does not mean looking at things with a doomed look, thinking: "I will die soon." This means simply realistically assessing the situation: “it is not a fact that a catastrophe will happen. But if that happens, then so be it.”

Of course, this does not eliminate the fear completely. I'm still afraid of death, but it helps to be prepared. What is the point of worrying all your life because of what will definitely happen? It is better to be at least a little prepared and not to think about your death as something that will never happen to us.
I understand that this advice is very difficult to put into practice. And, moreover, not everyone always wants to think about death.

But people who are tormented by the most absurd fears often write to me. Someone, for example, is afraid to go outside, because they believe that it is dangerous there, while at home it is much safer. It will be difficult for this person to cope with his fear if he waits for this fear to pass so that he can go outside. But it can become easier for him if he thinks: “Let there be danger on the street. But you can't stay at home all the time! You can not completely protect yourself, even being within four walls. Or I will go outside and put myself in danger of dying and getting hurt (this danger is negligible). Or I will stay at home until the day I die! Death that will happen anyway. If I die now, then I will die. But it probably won't happen any time soon."

If people stop dwelling so much on their fears, and can at least sometimes look them in the face, realizing that behind them there is nothing but emptiness, then fears will cease to have so much power over us. We shouldn't be so afraid of losing what we will lose anyway.

Fear and emptiness

The attentive reader will ask me: “But if you take this logic to the limit, it turns out that if there is no point in being afraid of losing those things that we will lose anyway, then there is no point in being afraid of anything at all! After all, nothing lasts forever!

Exactly so, even though it contradicts ordinary logic. At the end of every fear lies an emptiness. We have nothing to fear, because all things are temporary.

This thesis can be very difficult to understand intuitively.

But I'm not trying too hard for you to understand it on a theoretical level, but to use it in practice. How? I'll explain now.

I myself use this principle regularly. I am still afraid of many things. But, remembering this principle, I understand that my every fear is meaningless. I don't have to "feed" him and get carried away with him a lot. When I think about it, I find in myself the strength not to submit to fear.

Many people, when they are very afraid of something, subconsciously believe that they "should be afraid", that there are really scary things. They think that in relation to these things, no other reaction is possible than fear. But if you know that in principle there is nothing to fear in this life, since everything will happen someday, if you realize the meaninglessness, “emptiness” of fear, if you understand that there are no truly terrible things, but there is only a subjective reaction to these things, it will be easier to deal with fear. I will return to this point at the end of the article.

Method 4 - Observe

The following few methods will help you deal with fear as it arises.

Instead of succumbing to fear, try to just watch it from the side. Try to localize this fear in your thoughts, feel it as some kind of energy that is formed in certain parts of the body. Mentally direct your breath to these areas. Try to make your breathing slow and calm.

Don't get caught up in your fear with your thoughts. Just watch it form. Sometimes it helps to remove fear altogether. Even if the fear doesn't go away, it's okay. Becoming a dispassionate observer, you begin to realize your fear as something external to your "I", as something that no longer has such power over this "I".

When you are watching, fear is much easier to control. After all, the feeling of fear is formed like a snowball. At first, you are just scared, then all sorts of thoughts start to creep into your head: “what if trouble happens”, “what kind of strange sound did this make when the plane landed?”, “what if some kind of trouble happens to my health?”

And these thoughts feed the fear, it becomes even stronger and causes even more disturbing thoughts. We find ourselves again inside a vicious circle!

But by observing the feelings, we try to get rid of any thoughts and interpretations. We do not feed our fear with our thoughts, and then it becomes weaker. Don't let your own mind reinforce the fear. To do this, simply turn off reflections, evaluations and interpretations and go into observation mode. Don't think about the past or the future stay in the present moment with your fear!

Method 5 - Breathe

During attacks of fear, try to breathe deeply, taking longer breaths and exhalations. Diaphragmatic breathing is good for calming the nervous system and, according to scientific studies, stops the fight-or-flight response, which is directly related to feelings of fear.

Diaphragmatic breathing means you breathe from your belly instead of your chest. Focus on how you breathe. Count the time of inhalation and exhalation. Try to keep this time equal for inhalation and exhalation and long enough. (4 - 10 seconds.) Just do not need to choke. Breathing should be comfortable.

Method 6 - Relax your body

When fear attacks you, try to relax. Gently move your attention over every muscle in your body and relax it. You can combine this technique with breathing. Mentally direct your breath to different parts of your body, in order, starting from the head, ending with the feet.

Method 7 - Remind yourself of how your fear didn't come true

This method helps to cope with small and recurring fears. For example, you are constantly afraid that you could offend a person or make a bad impression on him. But, as a rule, it turns out that your fear never came true. It turned out that you did not offend anyone, and it was just your own mind that scared you.

If this is repeated from time to time, then when you again become afraid that you said something wrong when communicating, remember how often your fear was not realized. And most likely, you will understand there is absolutely nothing to be afraid of.

But be prepared for anything! Even if there is a possibility that someone is offended by you, then it's not a big deal! Make peace! Don't give too much importance to what has already happened. Most of your own mistakes can be corrected.

Method 8 - Treat fear as a thrill

Remember, I wrote that fear is just a feeling? If you are afraid of something, it does not mean that there is some kind of danger. This feeling is sometimes not related to reality, but is just a spontaneous chemical reaction in your head. Instead of being afraid of this reaction, treat it like a thrill, like a free ride. You don't have to pay money and put yourself in danger by skydiving to get an adrenaline rush. This adrenaline you have appears out of the blue. The beauty!

Method 9 - Embrace Your Fear, Don't Resist

Above, I talked about techniques that will help you quickly deal with your fear at the time of its occurrence. But you don't need to get attached to these techniques. When people hear about ways to control fear or fear, they sometimes fall into the trap of believing in self-control. They start thinking, “Wow! It turns out fear can be controlled! And now I know how to do it! Then I will definitely get rid of him!”

They begin to rely heavily on these techniques. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. And when people fail to manage their fear using these methods, they start to panic: “I can’t control this! Why? Yesterday it worked, but today it doesn't! What should I do? I need to deal with this urgently! I have to manage it!"

They begin to worry and thereby only increase their fear. But the truth is that far not always everything can be controlled. Sometimes these techniques will work, sometimes they won't. Of course, try to breathe, observe the fear, but if it does not pass, there is nothing terrible about it. No need to panic, no need to look for a new way out of the situation, leave everything as it is, accept your fear. You don't "should" get rid of it right now. The word "should" does not apply here at all. Because you are feeling the way you are right now. What happens, happens. Accept it and stop resisting.

Method 10 - Don't get attached to things

The following methods will allow you to remove fears from your life.

As the Buddha said: “the basis of human suffering (dissatisfaction, the inability to come to final satisfaction) is attachment (desire).” Attachment, in my opinion, is understood more as dependence than love.

If we are strongly attached to something, for example, we strongly need to produce an effect on the opposite sex, to achieve permanent victories on the love front, then this will lead us into a state of eternal dissatisfaction, and not happiness and pleasure, as it seems to us. . Sexual feeling, conceit cannot be fully satiated. After each new victory, these feelings will demand more and more. New successes on the love front will bring you less and less pleasure over time (“inflation of pleasure”), while failures will make us suffer. We will live in constant fear that we will lose our charm and attractiveness (and sooner or later this will happen anyway with the advent of old age) and again we will suffer. At a time when there will be no love adventures, we will not feel the joy of life.

Perhaps it will be easier for some people to understand attachment using the example of money. As long as we strive for money, it seems to us that by earning some amount of money, we will achieve happiness. But when we achieve this goal, happiness does not come and we want more! Complete satisfaction is unattainable! We're chasing carrots on a stick.

But it would be much easier for you if you were not so attached to it and rejoiced at what we have (it is not necessary to stop striving for the best). This is what the Buddha meant when he said that the cause of dissatisfaction is attachment. But attachments not only give rise to dissatisfaction and suffering, they form fear.

After all, we are afraid to lose exactly what we are so strongly attached to!

I am not saying that you need to go to the mountains, give up your personal life and destroy all attachments. Total disengagement is an extreme teaching, suitable for extreme situations. But, despite this, modern man can derive some benefit from this principle for himself without going to extremes.

To experience less fear, you do not need to get hung up on some things and put them at the basis of your existence. If you think: “I live for work”, “I only live for my children”, then you may have a strong fear of losing these things. After all, your whole life comes down to them.

That's why try to diversify your life as much as possible, let in a lot of new things, enjoy many things, and not just one thing. Be happy because you breathe and live, and not just because you have a lot of money and you are attractive to the opposite sex. Although, as I said above, the last things will not bring you happiness.

(In this sense, attachments are not only the cause of suffering, but its effect! People who are deeply unhappy inside begin desperately clinging to external things in search of satisfaction: sex, entertainment, alcohol, new experiences. But happy people tend to be more They are self-sufficient. The basis of their happiness is life itself, not things. Therefore, they are not so afraid of losing them.)

Attachment does not mean lack of love. As I wrote above, this is more understood as an addiction than love. For example, I have very high hopes for this site. I love developing it. If something bad happens to him, it will be a blow to me, but not the end of my life! After all, I have many other interesting things to do in my life. But my happiness is formed not only by them, but by the very fact that I live.

Method 11 - Nurture your ego

Remember, you are not alone in this world. The whole existence is not limited to your fears and problems. Stop focusing on yourself. There are other people in the world with their own fears and worries.

Understand that there is an immense world around you with its laws. Everything in nature is subject to birth, death, decay, disease. Everything in this world, of course. And you yourself are part of this universal order, and not the center of it!

If you feel yourself in harmony with this world, not opposing yourself to it, realize your existence as an integral part of the natural order, you will understand that you are not alone, that you, together with all living beings, are moving in the same direction. And so it has always been, forever and ever.

With this consciousness your fears will disappear. How to achieve such consciousness? It must have come along with the development of personality. One way to achieve this state is to practice meditation.

Method 12 - Meditate

In this article, I talked about the fact that you can’t identify yourself with your fear, that it’s just a feeling, that you need to be ready for anything, that you can’t put your own ego at the center of all existence.

This is easy to understand on a theoretical level, but not always easy to apply in practice. It is not enough just to read about it, it needs to be practiced, day by day, applying in real life. Not all things in this world are available for "intellectual" knowledge.

That attitude to fears, which I spoke about at the beginning, needs to be brought up in oneself. The way to come to these conclusions in practice, to realize that fear is just an illusion, is meditation.

Meditation gives you the opportunity to "reprogram" yourself to be happier and freer. Nature is a wonderful "constructor", but her creations are not perfect, biological mechanisms (the mechanism of fear), which worked in the Stone Age, do not always work in the modern world.

Meditation will allow you to partially correct the imperfection of nature, change your standard emotional reactions to many things, move away from fear to calmness, come to a clearer understanding of the illusory nature of fear, understand that fear is not part of your personality and free yourself from it!

With practice, you can find the source of happiness in yourself and not become strongly attached to different things. You will learn to accept your emotions and fears rather than resist them. Meditation will teach you to observe your fear from the outside, without getting involved in it.

Meditation will not only help you come to some important understanding of yourself and life. The practice has been scientifically proven to calm the sympathetic nervous system, which is responsible for feelings of stress. It will make you calmer and less stressed. It will teach you to relax deeply and get rid of fatigue and tension. And this is very important for people who are afraid.

You can listen to my short lecture about that, at the link.

Method 13 - Don't let fear be imposed on you

Many of us are used to the fact that everyone around them only talks about how terrible it is to live, what terrible diseases exist, gasp and groan. And this perception is transferred to us. We begin to think that there are really scary things that we "should" be afraid of, since everyone is afraid of them!

Fear, surprisingly, may be the result of stereotypes. It is natural to fear death, and almost all people are afraid of it. But when we see the constant lamentations of other people about the death of loved ones, when we observe how our elderly friend cannot come to terms with the death of her son, who died 30 years ago, then we begin to think that this is not just scary, but terrible! That there is no chance to perceive it any other way.

In fact, these things become so terrible only in our perception. And there is always the possibility of treating them differently. When Einstein died, he accepted death quite calmly, he treated it as an unchanging order of things. If you ask any spiritually developed person, maybe a religious ascetic, a staunch Christian or a Buddhist, how he feels about death, he will certainly be calm about this. And this is not necessarily connected only with the fact that the first believes in an immortal soul, an afterlife existence, and the second, although he does not believe in the soul, believes in reincarnation. This is due to the fact that they are spiritually developed and have tamed their ego. No, I'm not saying that you need to seek salvation in religion, I'm trying to prove that a different attitude to those things that we consider terrible is possible, and it can be achieved along with spiritual development!

Do not listen to those who say how scary everything is, These people are wrong. In fact, there are almost no things in this world that are worth fearing. Or not at all.

And watch less TV.

Method 14 - Do not avoid situations in which fear arises (!!!)

I highlighted this point with three exclamation marks because it is one of the most important tips in this article. I briefly touched on this issue in the first paragraphs, but here I will dwell on it in more detail.

I have already said that the instinctive tactics of behavior during fear (running away, being afraid, avoiding some situations) are the wrong tactics in the context of the task of getting rid of fear. If you are afraid to leave the house, then you will never cope with this fear if you stay at home.

But what to do? Get outside! Forget about your fear! Let him appear, don't be afraid of him, let him in and don't resist. Don't take it seriously though, it's just a feeling. You can get rid of your fear only when you start to ignore the very fact of its occurrence and live as if there is no fear!

• To overcome the fear of flying on airplanes, you need to fly on airplanes as often as possible.
• To overcome the fear of the need for self-defense, you need to enroll in the section of martial arts.
• To overcome the fear of meeting girls, you need to meet girls!

You must do what you are afraid to do! There is no easy way. Forget about the "must" as soon as possible to get rid of fear. Just act.

Method 15 - Strengthen the Nervous System

The extent to which you are prone to fear depends very much on the state of your health in general and on the health of your nervous system in particular. Therefore, improve your work, learn to cope with stress, do yoga, quit. I covered these points in my other articles, so I will not write about it here. Strengthening your body is a very important thing in the fight against depression, fears and bad mood. Please do not neglect this and do not limit yourself to "emotional work" alone. In a healthy body healthy mind.

Conclusion

This article does not call for immersing yourself in the world of sweet dreams and hiding from fear. In this article, I tried to tell you how important it is to learn to face your fears, accept them, live with them, and not hide from them.

Let this path not be the easiest, but it is the right one. All your fears will disappear only when you stop being afraid of the very feeling of fear. When you're done trust him. When you won't let him tell you how to get to the place of rest, how often to go out, what kind of people you communicate with. When you start living as if there is no fear.

Only then will he leave. Or won't leave. But this will no longer be of great importance to you, since fear will become only a small obstacle for you. Why give importance to the little things?

In the life of every person there are happy moments when he is proud of himself, his achievements and really enjoys life. However, the peculiarity of human nature lies in the fact that much more time passes in thinking about their own failures, in fear of the future and expecting defeats. Anxiety and fear can completely subjugate a person and even become a serious medical problem. That is why it is so important to learn how to get rid of anxiety and fear and not let them ruin our lives.

Why do we experience anxiety and fear?

Stress and anxiety are a reaction to various actions of our life related to health, relationships between narrow-minded people, problems at work and events in the world around us. You can experience depression and anxiety, and in connection with poor health, and from resentment, and from annoying languid ideas. There are several ways to get rid of anxiety.

If you want to get rid of anxiety and fear, think that there is no person in the world who would not experience anxiety and fear for his future, the expectation of some uncertain future problems. Anxiety can range from mild anxiety to unbearable panic attacks.

With anxiety, a person waits for a meeting with a threat, keeps alert, intense. The emotion of excitement connects the physical reactions of activation in the body. Anxiety and fear consist of 2 components - bodily and mental.

The corporal is expressed in frequent heartbeat, chills, prolonged muscle tension, sweating, a feeling of lack of air (subjective, because there is no real suffocation with anxiety). With this feeling, sleep is often disturbed (your sleep is sensitive, constantly interrupted, it is difficult for you to fall asleep) and appetite (you either do not eat anything, or vice versa, your appetite wakes up).

Mental is manifested by excitement, all sorts of fears (they change each other, often unstable), the instability of your mood, with powerful anxiety - a feeling of detachment from the environment and a feeling of a change in your personal body.

Pronounced and prolonged anxiety then causes the emotion of fatigue, which is logical, because a person spends a lot of energy on maintaining an “alert” state. There are many types of anxiety, in any case, there are prerequisites for its development, their own individual medical picture, native healing and their own prognosis.

The causes of unrest are sometimes not obvious. However, they are always there. Once you have experienced severe anxiety, the main role in the treatment of anxiety disorders goes to a psychotherapist or clinical psychologist. The specialist will discover the inner circumstances of your excitement. By the way, the presence of diseases of the body does not at all exclude the primacy of psychological causes in the development of the disease.

See a psychologist or a specialist. Any anxiety can be dealt with successfully.

How to get rid of anxiety on your own

No need to fear uncertainty

Anxiety-prone people absolutely cannot stand uncertainty, they believe that experiences help them cope with difficult life periods. But that's not the case at all. Remembering past troubles and predicting the worst-case scenario only drains a person’s physical and mental strength and does not allow you to enjoy the present moment. Thus, the best option is to leave it to chance and let it be what it is.

Set aside a special time for anxiety

Since it is quite difficult to fight habits and you cannot get rid of anxiety and fear with the help of willpower alone, allocate special time for yourself to worry and worry.

• It is best to draw up a daily routine and set aside half an hour for alarm (but not before bedtime). During this time, give yourself the opportunity to worry about every reason, while the rest of the time try to restrain the flow of negative thoughts.
• In the event that anxiety overcomes you outside the time allotted for it, write down on paper everything that you would like to think about during a special time for worries.

Take a critical look at your negative thoughts

Constant experiences quickly develop into cognitive distortions (that is, stereotypes of thinking that have nothing to do with reality), such as exaggerating negative and ignoring positive traits of one’s character, events, attitudes of others, etc.

Learn to relax

To get rid of anxiety and fear, master the technique of relaxation. This is best done in a training session under the guidance of a trainer.

Take care of yourself

Try to ensure a healthy and fulfilling lifestyle for yourself, as this helps to control negative thoughts.

• Ask family and friends for help. Communicate more with friends and relatives so as not to feel helpless and lonely.
• Eat right.
• Limit your intake of nicotine, alcohol, caffeine, and sugar.
• Get good sleep.
• Provide yourself with regular physical activity.

How to deal with anxiety

Even among the most balanced people, who are not disposed to unnecessary experiences, there can be a lot of excuses for stress these days. Fortunately, there are psychological techniques that can help you learn how to deal with anxiety.

There are some everyday worries, as you already understood, every person has them every day. And you practically won’t touch the horrors of a cosmic scale. Here are some ways to control yourself:

Try to give in to anxiety. However, for twenty minutes a day. This will be enough. To get rid of anxiety and fear, take time during the day to reflect on the sore. Do not try to find a way out and get away from anxiety at this time. Elementary give free rein to horrors and unrest, worry, later, you can even cry.

But when the planned twenty minutes are over, stop. And get on with your homework. This method is effective for ladies, because it is they who forbid themselves to think about dilemmas, and this is precisely why the difficulties are not solved. Indeed, they are coming back. When you allow yourself to worry about something during the day, you won't wake up to it at night.

Try to deal with uncertainty. Just tell yourself that what happened to you can happen to anyone. Almost everyone spends months tormenting themselves with thoughts about future problems. However, this world is arranged in such a way that we do not know in advance what will happen in the future.

Find a time when no one will disturb you. Sit comfortably, breathe deeply and slowly. Imagine your anxiety as a thin plume of smoke rising from a smoldering log. Do not try to influence this smoke by changing its direction, simply watch how it rises up and dissolves into the atmosphere.

Concentrate on the daily. Pay attention to the little cute rituals that are customary in your family. And if necessary, invent new traditions. This will undoubtedly help you maintain a sense of stability in the world.

Try not to dramatize the situation. When you worry, you expect the worst of all possible scenarios and underestimate your abilities. Realize that from time to time all people are completely worried, even presidents. You cannot continuously keep your feelings and emotions under control, as they cannot be annulled. Prove to yourself that you are able to cope with inconsistencies.

Make your life more serene. Invent yourself an exciting needlework that requires concentration. Practice solving various problems. Do not be afraid to try, even if the first time the situation seems completely incorrigible.

To get rid of anxiety and fear, collect a list of options for solving the most fundamental problems. If it doesn't work out right away, don't be ashamed to reach out to those you trust for support. It is not in vain that the leaders of the largest companies believe in the method of brainstorming. By listening to the ideas of the people around you, you can look at the situation from a different angle.

Try to run away from anxiety. Through bodily exercise, hormones of fun are produced in the body. Three thirty-minute workouts a week have every chance to cheer you up. However, studies show that even a ten-minute overload has a positive result on well-being.

Try to find activities for the mind. The secret is simple: if you are doing something really inquisitive, you forget about anxiety. Think about whether there is something in your life that gives you pleasure and significantly improves your mood. If yes, then go ahead! Deliberately look for things and activities that can attract and - which is extremely important - hold back your interest. Try to focus on what you are doing. When your mind is busy, you have nothing to worry about.

Spend time with friends and loved ones. Your doctors are your friends. You can truly open up and pour out your soul in front of a person whom you completely trust. And the chance to speak out is one of the most effective means.

At the same time, do not forget that personal meetings are even more useful than letters or phone calls. Go to theaters, exhibitions, museums, gain new knowledge. Meet comrades, former classmates and co-workers from a former job. Ask a friend or girlfriend who will enjoy listening to you to help you. With whom you will just talk about sore. But when you meet, be sure to come up with a way together to help you cope with feelings of anxiety.

What to do in case of anxiety

To get rid of the anxiety that has arisen, learn to switch, do not get stuck in past situations. Don't worry too much and don't go back to the same events.

Correctly evaluate the whole reality of the situation.

Deal with fear quickly.

Fighting fear with art therapy. To conquer your own fear, you need to get rid of it, as if throwing it away from the subconscious. You can do this with drawings. Take paints, a landscape sheet, and depict your fear. Then burn or tear this drawing.

The switching technique will help you get rid of anxiety and fear. As a rule, fearful people focus too much on themselves and on their spiritual world, so it is very important to be able to switch in a timely manner. To get rid of fear, do not allow fears to grow. It is much easier to note the moments in which fear appears, and quickly switch to positive emotions.

This is possible with the help of participation in some interesting and exciting business, or with the help of positive images and thoughts that must be constantly repeated until the fear subsides. For example, the following affirmation is sometimes used: “I am well protected. I'm safe".

Communicate with your fear. The best way to understand how to conquer fear is to make friends with it. Try to understand why he came, and also what positive functions he performs. To find out, talk to your fear in writing or verbally.

Various breathing exercises. One of the great cures for fear is the exercise "breathing in courage - breathing out fears." Sit in a comfortable position on the floor or in a chair with your back straight. Practice free breathing and imagine that with each inhalation you are inhaling courage and fearlessness, and with each exhalation you are releasing anxiety and fear.

To get rid of anxiety and fear, go towards your fear. This is the most effective of all known techniques. It lies in the fact that in order to overcome fear, it is necessary to go towards it. Despite the fact that you are very scared, you overcome yourself, and therefore your fears. Let's give an example of using this technique.

If you are afraid of communicating with people, start doing it immediately: call various organizations, talk to strangers, ask questions. If you are afraid of dogs, first observe them from a safe distance, look at their pictures. After that, reduce the distance, start stroking small dogs. This method is the most efficient.

There are situations when you need to make a decision very quickly, stand up for yourself or take the fight. At such moments, fear can shackle and prevent victory. In order to learn how to quickly deal with fear, you need to know a couple of technical methods, for example:

If you feel fear, breathe slowly and deeply, at least ten times. Thus, you effectively use the time to get used to the current situation.

To relieve anxiety, talk to yourself. This happens to be very useful. Or let your mind be sure to come up with something useful. Talking to yourself is useful in that your experiences are unraveled, translating external planes into internal ones. Self-talk explains the position you are in and shows you how it happened. It calms and normalizes your heart rate. When you call yourself by your first name, you are safe.

Do you want to get rid of anxiety and fear? Then get angry at someone or at the situation, but more powerfully. You no longer experience fear, only anger. You will want to act immediately.

Another way to get rid of fear is to laugh. Remember something funny from life, this must be in the life of every person. Laughter will not only "take away" your fear, but also cause a good state.

Anxiety and fear, how to get rid of these unpleasant sensations. Inexplicable stress, expectation of trouble, mood swings, in which case you can handle it yourself, and when you need the help of specialists. In order to understand how dangerous it is, how to get rid of them, why they arise, how to remove anxiety from the subconscious, it is necessary to understand the causes and mechanisms for the appearance of these symptoms.

The main causes of anxiety and fear

Anxiety has no real background and is an emotion, a fear of an unknown threat, a fictitious, vague premonition of a danger. Fear comes into contact with a particular situation or object.

The causes of fear and anxiety can be stress, anxiety, illness, resentment, troubles at home. The main manifestations of anxiety and fear:

1. physical manifestation. It is expressed by chills, palpitations, sweating, asthma attacks, insomnia, lack of appetite or inability to get rid of hunger.
2. Emotional condition. It is manifested by frequent excitement, anxiety, fear, emotional outbursts or complete apathy.

Fear and anxiety during pregnancy

The feeling of fear in pregnant women is associated with anxiety for future children. Anxiety comes in waves or haunts you day after day.

The causes of anxiety and fear can be caused by various factors:

• Hormonal restructuring of the body of some women makes them calm and balanced, while others do not get rid of tearfulness;
• Relationships in the family, financial situation, experience of previous pregnancies affect the level of stress;
• The unfavorable medical prognosis and the stories of those who have already given birth do not allow getting rid of excitement and fear.

Remember Every expectant mother has a different pregnancy, and the level of medicine makes it possible to achieve a favorable outcome in the most difficult situations.

Panic attack

A panic attack comes on suddenly and usually occurs in crowded places (large shopping malls, metro, bus). There is no threat to life or visible reasons for fear at this moment. Panic disorders and related phobias plague women in their 20s and 30s.

An attack is provoked by prolonged or one-time stress, imbalance of hormones, diseases of internal organs, temperament, genetic predisposition.

There are 3 types of attack:

1. Spontaneous panic. Appears unexpectedly, for no reason. Accompanied by intense fear and anxiety;
2. Conditional panic. It is provoked by exposure to chemical (for example, alcohol), or biological (hormonal failure) substances;
3. situational panic. The background for its manifestation is the unwillingness to get rid of the expectation of problems or a traumatic component.

The most common symptoms include the following conditions:

• Pain in the chest;
• Tachycardia;
• VSD (vegetative-vascular dystonia);
• High pressure;
• Nausea, vomiting;
• Fear of death;
• Headaches and dizziness;
• Flushes of heat and cold;
• Shortness of breath, feeling of fear and anxiety;
• sudden fainting;
• unrealized;
• uncontrolled urination;
• Hearing and vision impairment;
• Impaired coordination of movements

Anxiety neurosis, features of appearance

Anxiety neurosis occurs under the influence of prolonged mental stress or severe stress, is associated with a malfunction in the autonomic system. This is a disease of the nervous system and psyche.

The main symptom is anxiety, accompanied by a number of symptoms:

• causeless anxiety;
• Depressed state;
• Insomnia;
• Fear that you can't get rid of;
• Nervousness;
• Intrusive anxious thoughts;
• Arrhythmia and tachycardia;
• feeling of nausea;
• Hypochondria;
• severe migraines;
• Dizziness;
• Digestive disorder.

Anxiety neurosis can be both an independent disease and a concomitant state of phobic neurosis, depression or schizophrenia.

Attention! The disease quickly turns into a chronic disease, and the symptoms of anxiety and fear become constant companions, it is impossible to get rid of them if you do not contact a specialist in time.

During periods of exacerbation, attacks of anxiety, fear, tearfulness, irritability appear. Anxiety can gradually degenerate into hypochondria or obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Features of depression

The reason for the appearance is stress, failure, lack of fulfillment and emotional shock (divorce, death of a loved one, serious illness). Depression is a disease that mainly affects residents of large cities. Failure of the metabolic process of hormones responsible for emotions causes causeless depression.

Main manifestations:

• Sad mood;
• Apathy;
• Feelings of anxiety, sometimes fear;
• Constant fatigue;
• Closure;
• Low self-esteem;
• Indifference;
• Unwillingness to make decisions;
• Lethargy.

hangover anxiety

Intoxication of the body appears in everyone who takes alcoholic beverages.

To get rid of it, all organs come into the fight against poisoning. The reaction from the nervous system is manifested in a person's feeling of intoxication, accompanied by frequent mood swings, from which one cannot get rid of, fear.

Then comes the hangover syndrome, accompanied by anxiety, manifested as follows:

• Mood swings, neuroses in the morning;
• Nausea, discomfort in the abdomen;
• Tides;
• Dizziness;
• Memory losses;
• Hallucinations accompanied by anxiety and fear;
• Pressure surges;
• Arrhythmia;
• Despair;
• Panic fear.

Psychological techniques to help relieve anxiety

Even calm and balanced people periodically experience anxiety, what to do, how to get rid of anxiety and fear in order to regain peace of mind.

There are special psychological techniques for anxiety that will help get rid of problems:

• Succumb to anxiety and fear, set aside 20 minutes a day for this, but not before bed. Immerse yourself in a painful topic, give vent to tears, but as soon as the time is up, get down to everyday activities, get rid of anxieties, fears and worries;
• Get rid of anxiety about the future, live in the present. Imagine anxiety and fear as a plume of smoke rising and dissolving high in the sky;
• Do not dramatize what is happening. Let go of the desire to be in control. Get rid of anxiety, fear and constant tension. Knitting, reading light literature make life calmer, relieve feelings of hopelessness and depression;
• Go in for sports, get rid of despondency, it improves mood and increases self-esteem. Even 2 half-hour workouts a week will help relieve many fears and get rid of anxiety;
• An occupation to your liking, a hobby will help get rid of anxiety;
• Meetings with loved ones, hiking, trips are the best way to get rid of inner worries and anxiety.

How to get rid of fear

Until the fear has crossed all boundaries, and has not turned into a pathology, get rid of it:

• Do not concentrate on disturbing thoughts, get rid of them, learn to switch to positive moments;
• Do not dramatize the situation, really assess what is happening;
• Learn to quickly get rid of fear. There are many ways: art therapy, yoga, switching technique, meditation, listening to classical music;
• Focus on the positive by repeating “I am protected. I'm fine. I'm safe" until you get rid of fear;
• Do not be afraid of fear, psychologists advise you to study it and even talk and write letters to your fear. This allows you to get rid of it faster;
• To get rid of fear within yourself, go to meet it, go through it over and over again until you get rid of it;
• There is a good breathing exercise to get rid of fear and anxiety. You need to sit comfortably with your back straight and begin to slowly breathe deeply, mentally imagining that you are inhaling courage and exhaling fear. After about 3-5 minutes, you will be able to get rid of fear and anxiety.

What to do if you need to quickly get rid of fear?

There are times when you need to quickly get rid of fear. These can be emergency cases when it comes to life and death.

To get rid of the shock, to take the situation into your own hands, to suppress panic and anxiety, the advice of a psychologist will help:

• The breathing technique will help to calm down and get rid of anxiety and fear. Take a slow, deep breath in and out at least 10 times. This will make it possible to realize what is happening and get rid of anxiety and fear;
• Get very angry, this will relieve fear and give you the opportunity to act immediately;
• Talk to yourself by calling yourself by your first name. You will calm down internally, get rid of anxiety, be able to assess the situation in which you find yourself and understand how to act;
• A good way to get rid of anxiety, remember something funny and laugh heartily. Fear will quickly disappear.

When should you seek medical help?

From time to time, everyone experiences feelings of anxiety or fear. Usually these sensations do not last long, and they manage to get rid of them on their own. If the psychological state is out of control and you can’t get rid of anxiety yourself, you need to see a doctor.

Reasons for visiting:

• Attacks of fear are accompanied by panic horror;
• The desire to get rid of anxiety leads to isolation, isolation from people and an attempt to get rid of an uncomfortable situation by all means;
• Physiological component: chest pain, lack of oxygen, dizziness, nausea, pressure surges, which cannot be eliminated.

An unstable emotional state, accompanied by physical exhaustion, leads to mental pathologies of varying severity with increased anxiety.

To get rid of these types of anxiety on your own will not work, medical help is needed.

How to get rid of anxiety and anxiety with medication

To relieve the patient of anxiety and fear, the doctor may prescribe treatment with pills. When treating with pills, patients often experience relapses, therefore, in order to completely get rid of the disease, this method is combined with psychotherapy to achieve a good result.

You can get rid of a mild form of mental illness by taking antidepressants. In order to finally get rid of the symptoms with positive dynamics, a course of maintenance therapy is prescribed for a period of six months to a year.

In severe forms of the disease, the patient is treated inpatiently, being placed in a hospital.

Antidepressants, antipsychotics and insulin are administered to the patient by injection.

Anti-anxiety drugs that have a sedative effect can be bought at a pharmacy in the public domain:

• Valerian acts as a mild sedative. It is taken within 2-3 weeks, 2 pieces per day.
• Persen drink 2-3 times within 24 hours, 2-3 pieces to get rid of causeless anxiety, fear and anxiety for a maximum of 2 months.
• Novo-Passit is prescribed to get rid of unreasonable anxiety. Drink 3 times a day, 1 tablet. The course time depends on the clinical picture of the disease.
• Grandaxin 3 times a day after meals to get rid of anxiety.

Psychotherapy for Anxiety Disorders

Panic attacks and unreasonable anxiety are well treated with cognitive behavioral therapy, based on the findings that the causes of mental illness and psychological problems lie in the distortions of the patient's thinking. He is taught to get rid of inappropriate and illogical thoughts, taught to solve problems that seemed insurmountable before.

It differs from psychoanalysis in that it does not attach importance to childhood memories, the emphasis is on the current moment. A person learns to act and think realistically, getting rid of fears. To get rid of anxiety, 5 to 20 sessions are needed.

The technical side of the technique consists in repeatedly immersing the patient in a situation that causes fear and teaching him to control what is happening. Constant contact with the problem gradually allows you to get rid of anxiety and fear.

What is the treatment?

Generalized anxiety disorder is characterized by a general, persistent anxiety that is not related to specific situations or objects. It differs not very strong, but long exhausting action.

To get rid of the disease, the following methods are used:

• Method of exposure and prevention of reactions. It consists in complete immersion in your fear or anxiety. Gradually, the symptom becomes weaker and it is possible to completely get rid of it;
• Cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy gives very good results in getting rid of unreasonable anxiety.

Fighting panic attacks and anxiety

Tranquilizers are traditionally used to relieve anxiety and panic attacks. These drugs quickly relieve symptoms, but have side effects and do not address the causes.

In mild cases, you can use preparations made on the basis of herbs: birch leaves, chamomile, motherwort, valerian.

Attention! Drug therapy is not enough to get rid of all the problems in the fight against panic attacks and anxiety. Psychotherapy is the best treatment.

A good doctor prescribes not only medications that relieve symptoms, but also helps to understand the causes of anxiety, making it possible to get rid of the likelihood of a return of the disease.

Conclusion

The modern level of development of medicine allows you to get rid of feelings of anxiety and fear in a short time if you turn to specialists in a timely manner. The treatment uses an integrated approach. The best results are achieved with a combination of hypnosis, physical rehabilitation, cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy and drug treatment (in difficult situations).

The fears and anxieties that people suffer often have little to do with the real threat. In general, anxiety is a reaction to the dangers expected by a person that may come from outside. It is accompanied by tension, a feeling of constant feeling of discomfort, danger. Anxiety, unlike fear, which appears in response to real danger, mobilizes for action and often saves.

Worry and fear can be devastating and make it very difficult to lead a normal, healthy, happy and fulfilling life. Many people suffer from anxiety, which is a mental condition characterized by constant worries. They constantly think about how to get rid of fear and anxiety.

If a person feels simply trapped in a sense of doom or unhappiness, it is important to take appropriate action to change their life and attitude towards it.

Painful experiences can prevent a person from living a full life and realizing their full potential. To get rid of anxiety and anxiety, it is necessary to deal with this condition systematically and step by step.

Problem identification

The first thing you need to start working on your fears is to recognize their presence as existing problems, as well as to realize their importance and impact on your life. You need to think about what circumstances plunge you into great anxiety. Every person has such situations. This may be the fear of speaking in front of a large audience, the beginning of communication with the opposite sex, the fear of being funny, uninteresting and boring, stupid or too smart, and many other experiences. Do not bury your head in the sand, you must boldly admit your problems.

What will help in solving the problem?

Don't be afraid of your fears

Overcoming fear is always very nice. This is a valuable experience and a victory over ourselves, which will give us new strength and optimism. Without stress and anxiety, life would be trivial, tasteless, like soup without spices.

Many events in our life and even achievements can be caused by fears. The fear of being unrecognized makes the artist work hard and create great works, the fear of defeat makes athletes achieve high results in competitions, the musician, fearing to disappoint his fans, plays a lot, improving his skills. Fear can lead scientists, doctors and people of many specialties, stimulating them to action, victory and achievement.

Therefore, fear is not only an obstacle in our lives, but also our opportunity and stimulus.

Anxiety mobilizes creativity, revitalizes our imagination and creativity, as evidenced by the stories of many prominent people.

How to get rid of depression anxiety and irritability?

We need to conduct a thorough analysis of our way of life. Let's take a look at how we try to solve our current problems and how this affects the intensity of the anxiety and fears we feel.