Attempts to completely abolish anxiety usually fail and thus, add to distress and despair.
Learning to cope with anxiety and building strategies to manage it is the key.
Aim of any intervention for treating anxiety, be it in form of self help, medications, expert advice of a psychiatrist or psychologist- is about learning to ‘manage’ anxiety and not really about curing it.
First ‘mantra’ to manage anxiety is to train mind to identify the triggers of anxiety.
Talking about suicide does not give the person ideas, it does not push them to take the step. In fact, it helps them feel validated and heard.
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Resilience- ability to ‘bounce back’. The human mind has astonishing strength to bound back from any depth of despair. It can heal. It can regenerate. No matter how tough and difficult the circumstances look today, we are a resilient species, we will bounce back.
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