How do you deal with anxiety?

[InbetweenDreams]

Driving at night time is what I meant. I find it calmes me. Apart from pasting speed cameras lol. God I worry for days after passing one of those things.

I won't take meds if I can help it. In the UK the NHS doesn't like giving meds out. So they usually do cognitive therapy.

My purpose for this thread was to see what different methods do people use to help combat anxiety.

I see, well I do like driving... Which is interesting because the worst attack ever came on while driving... That being said I hate other drivers.

We don't have speed cameras where I live (they do in some cities) but I also have a very good radar detector...

Well a lot of good advice has been given and the outdoors is very therapeutic. I like campfires. Something about staring at the fire...music and wine helps too lol

The best therapy is getting away from the thoughts that make you anxious. I see anxiety being something the mind does almost unaware of it, as it is not the "thing" that makes us anxious, it is "us" who makes us anxious. So you sort of have to study yourself and your own patterns and interrupt your thought process. At the same time you need to get away from thinking about those things in order to relax some and be able to have a clear mind to work on changing your thoughts process... If that makes any sense...