Practical techniques for anxiety megathread

[Whitney Edwards]

 

[Whitney Edwards]

Supplements for anxiety. 

 

[PurpleTree]

wim hof breathing

eft

yoga

massages

vagal nerve stretching

supplements 

medication

[Joshe]

I can't offer any long-term solutions but for short-term:

Buteyko breathing works well for me. 

For social and performance anxiety and if your symptoms make themselves known by sweating, red face, heart racing, etc., you can mitigate that with beta blockers, and just knowing you have those available can reduce your anxiety a lot. Depending on where you live, you can get a prescription from gokick.com. 

Also, I discovered how to make myself sneeze non-stop by stimulating the trigeminal nerve with a massager. If you do a 5-minute sneeze session, you will expel much mucus and you'll produce a lot of tears. When you're done, it will feel like you have been crying and your parasympathetic nervous system will be activated and much tension will be gone. I have used this to manage acute anxiety. It's also really good before going to sleep.