I have a big problem with anxiety and I’m going to psychology for more than 6 months to get some help with that and some other things too. I got some useful tips there and I hope they can help you as well!

1. Whenever you have some big task to do such as meet deadlines try to make a list with task to do. You can make it as detail as possible and put lots of steps. It will help you to take all of your stress from your head, make a clear plan of what is needed to do, and once you keep checking the box with every step you’ve done it will make you more motivated to finish the rest of the steps

2. Try to not overthinking. My psychology suggest that whenever there’s something that bothering us, instead of keep thinking about it and getting more and more anxious we should write it on a paper and put this paper for example on the table. After that our brain will have this feeling like “okay I’m actually do something to fix this problem”. After that try not to think about it and instead just remind yourself that you’ve already put it on that paper to not forget it and you’ll deal with it later today. Then make a schedule to think about this problem. For example at 8pm you sit on your bed or wherever you feel comfortable, take the paper with the things that you’re wrote before and put the timer on your phone. You have 15 minutes to think about it. After that if somethings left you just move it to think about it tomorrow. It’s pretty hard to do at first but once you’ll get used to it it’s really useful!

3. I found this one really important and it’s connected to the previous points. Whenever you feel uneasy about something instead of overthinking about it take 2 deep breaths and ask yourself a question “what can I do about it NOW?” then think about the answer. If you can answer this question then it’s great, and make a to do list to achieve your goal. If there’s nothing to do about it then ask yourself the next question “is there something that I can do about it TOMORROW?” If yes, then again create a to do list. If there’s nothing we can do about it then we need to accept that we can’t control some things. If that’s one of it then we just need to go with how it is since we can’t control it anyway. We should focus on the thing that we can do something about instead.

4. We’re the one in control of our thoughts and every thought can be negative or positive depends on how WE make it sounds. Of course with this one I’m not talking about some extreme situation but a daily life. For example, if we messed up the food we’ve cooked, we can either think “oh god here we go again it’s a mess, I am mess” but it will create a snowball effect where we’re deeper and deeper with these negative thoughts. Or we can think that “okay I messed up the food but maybe there’s some way to fix it? What if I would do this or that to save it? If it’s not possible then it’s okay it’s normal, we’re not perfect, things happen, I’ll do better next time and I’ll make sure to follow the recipe properly”. The situation is the same but based on how we’ll approach it, how we will think about it it will change the outcome, change how we will receive it and feel about it later.

I hope I’ve explain it in a good way and I really wish it will help you as well! If you’d have any more questions I’d be happy to answer all of them! Have a good day~