The Spring Festival turned into a "Spring Disaster", it turns out that anxiety is "causing trouble"! How to relieve anxiety after the festival

I don’t know if you feel the same as I do recently. The Spring Festival holiday is still here, but I feel extremely irritable.

It was time to go back to work. I felt uneasy and even broke out in a cold sweat when I thought about going back to my colleagues. I felt depressed and dazed when I thought about leaving my parents. I was immersed in negative emotions all day. The food I liked became tasteless. I felt weak all over. I wanted to check my phone to relieve my mood, but all I saw was the rush hour. I felt even more upset and anxious all day.

Don't be afraid, we are anxious. We live in a challenging era, with information explosion, socialization, and life reminding you everywhere that "there are always people who live better than you, and there are always people who live harder than you." From birth to growing up, from work to starting a family, we are constantly intimidated by success studies and constantly sold anxiety. We begin to become uneasy, afraid, and even collapsed. Anxiety is everywhere, so where should we go?

In fact, there is no need to collapse like this. We should calmly accept every emotion, whether good or bad. The same goes for anxiety.

Anxiety, to put it simply, mainly refers to the psychological state of worry, fear, and terror. Anxiety is indeed everywhere. Everyone will show different degrees of anxiety when facing various events. These are all normal manifestations. Normal anxiety is a favorable response to threatening situations. A certain degree of anxiety can help us be more motivated and goal-oriented to complete a task, and it is the driving force to promote our lives in a better direction. However, if there is excessive anxiety, it will seriously affect our normal life, not only causing us mental torture, but also causing physical discomfort, thus forming a vicious cycle and completely destroying our lives.

What is pathological anxiety? Is it that you wake up every morning and feel like you don’t want to go to work? No, you just want to sleep in.

If you have unreasonable fear and worry, or even feel terrified, for example, when you are standing in the subway and nothing happens, but you feel uneasy and uncomfortable, and think that you will be late and will be deducted money, even if you have arrived at the company early, this emotion still exists and continues to loom, affecting the work of the whole day. Another thing is that there are obvious phenomena beyond reality, such as palpitations, chest tightness, and inability to breathe, even though the things you move are heavy and your heart rate is normal. Secondly, you will feel restless, shout for no reason, and your body will tremble uncontrollably; it can also manifest as sweating, dry mouth, nausea, vomiting, dizziness, fatigue, frequent urination, insomnia, difficulty falling asleep, etc. And these states and emotions last for a long time, and many tests at the hospital cannot find the cause.

At this time, you need to bravely seek help, listen to the advice of professional doctors, and insist on seeing a doctor until you get rid of these mental problems.

In fact, many people do not reach the level of pathological anxiety, but they are also suffering. Is it that I can only let anxiety control my life? No, there are some simple and feasible ways to control anxiety.

First of all, we need to understand that anxiety is a normal emotion. Just like happiness and joy, we should accept it calmly. Don’t be afraid of the arrival of anxiety. We should live in harmony with anxiety.

Secondly, learning to take deep breaths when you are nervous and afraid can help relieve anxiety, and exercising every day will also help. Finally, avoid eating foods that increase the burden on the body, such as drinks containing alcohol and caffeine, and avoid eating fried and smoked foods. You can eat more nuts and dairy products appropriately, and fresh fruits and vegetables are also a must for every meal.

New year, new self. I hope everyone can make peace with anxiety this year and happily enjoy the joys and sorrows that life brings!