Natural Ways to Help Anxiety!

[sherripatt]

Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is the most widely-used therapy for anxiety disorders. Research has shown it to be effective in the treatment of the panic disorder, phobias, social anxiety disorder, and generalized anxiety disorder, among many other conditions.

CBT addresses negative patterns and distortions in the way we look at the world and ourselves.


Cognitive therapy examines how negative thoughts, or cognitions, contribute to anxiety.

Behavior therapy examines how you behave and react in situations that trigger anxiety.


I think this is best for anxiety treatment if someone doesn't get the provision of obtaining herbal which @QuakerBaker already mentioned.

[Harpaint]

Vitamin D if you don't get regular sunlight.

[303Guy]

I would like to endorse what QuakerBaker has suggested in the OP.

I have another suggestion for the treatment of anxiety. As I suspected, Oolong tea would help because it contains theanine, as does green tea and any tea made from young leaves. Apparently, turkey is also rich in theanine.

The theanine form is L-theanine and can be purchased in concentrated form. It is an amino acid used by the brain to form a neurotransmitter (gamma aminobutyric acid) that calms the mind. Stress and/or digestive issues may cause a deficiency of this neurotransmitter. The great thing about it is that it is merely a natural nutrient used by the body and has zero side effects.

I know it works! My anxiety was going through the roof (life's circumstances which I won't go into here) and then I learned about the role of gamma aminobutyric acid in the neural synapses and sort out a means of boosting it. L-theanine was the answer. My sleep began to improve and my anxiety subsided.

I also started practicing mindfulness, something I would also recommend. I used it to get to sleep and to get back to sleep in the night (early hour waking was a problem) and as QuakerBaker mentions, sleep is important in managing anxiety.

[Nchez]

Motherwort tincture. I usually make my own.

If I am in acute state, I take it 3 times a day. If I am OK, I take it once before bed. I do that for 3-6 weeks.
Sometimes I rotate it with Valerian root.

Walking helps a lot.

[Ghaati]

When I'm feeling a "general" anxiety I sing. Keeping my mind busy with lyrics and melody helps me not obsess about stress. If I try to be silent or meditate it just makes the anxiety worse.

[303Guy]

Originally Posted by Ghaati

When I'm feeling a "general" anxiety I sing. Keeping my mind busy with lyrics and melody helps me not obsess about stress. If I try to be silent or meditate it just makes the anxiety worse.

When I try to sing it makes my anxiety worse!

But you are right, listening to music or 'playing it in my head' as I often do is a great help. Keeping one's mind busy in any way is beneficial, I find. Walking in the hills and forests is great. Keeping physically busy while at the same time, keeping one's mind busy is about optimum.

Many of us, I suspect, have a dysfunction of some kind which causes or aggravates our anxiety and/or depression. I suspect that in my case there is a digestive issue which somehow results in deficiencies of neurotransmitters among other things. I have found that multi-vitamins helped a lot. Now days I find that those two amino-acid supplements I take normalise my moods and that without any side effects which is awesome.

I am under quite a lot of stress at the moment like this covid thing has put me out of work, and yet I am coping quite fine. A few days ago it was my late son's birthday and as can be imagined, things like that still hit me hard (it was suicide). That's to be expected I should think. It's something I don't expect I will ever get over but I don't break apart.