5 ways to reduce your anxieties

Mareks Bodnieks
3 min readMay 22, 2021

That’s why it is vital to treat the problem, as fear is one of the worst problems that we as humans must face. It makes people do illogical things, feel insecure, anxious, and uncertain. It can often even destroy or severely impact relationships in a negative way.

Luckily there are some things that you can do to face your fears, and in these steps, I’ll try to outline what can be done.

One of the most crucial steps, to begin with, is identifying the cause of the fear.

It’s important to identify why you’re feeling the way you do. You’ll often need to do some introspection to really find out what the underlying issue is at the core of it all. There are many types of anxieties, panic disorders, and other neurological issues that can be the cause of your fears and insecurities. By understanding the cause, you can try to circumvent those fears and prevent them from dominating your life.

You need to understand whether the fear that you feel is something relatively minuscule or is it affecting your daily life on a massive scale. Debilitating anxiety takes so much energy out of you. It’s very easy to become lost in an endless loop of negative thoughts that only bring about more negative thoughts and thus traps you in a consistent state of despair and dread.

Try to analyze whether it’s possible for you to manage your fear on your own or you need the help of a medical professional.

Once you understand the situations that cause you to feel fearful or anxious, you can write them down and then apply some strategies in order to counter those fears.

You can also write down the names of friends or family who might be able to support you in defeating your fear and if you feel particularly bad, then reach out to them, even if it seems that you should keep it to yourself — trust me, just talk to them, they want what’s best for you as well.

I’ve visited a personal couch for advice to see how I could treat my fears. He has recommended that I visit a professional to further evaluate how to treat them effectively. So get some help and learn how to stop living in fear.

You should definitely seek professional help if you feel anxious daily as there are a multitude of treatment options. You are by no means alone in having these issues as they’ve become even more prominent during these trying times that we live in, overloaded with information and stressed from so many variables that we cannot control. It’s important to keep having faith in yourself and know that you can overcome this and that this is not how you’ll be feeling all the time, I promise you. It can often feel like the end of the world but there is always hope.

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