34 Coping Statements for Dealing with Anxiety | Session 5.1 [English]
Channel: openseva
Date: 2020-03-31

Coping statements for dealing with anxiety   
From the Albert Ellis Institute

There are certain great ideas to reduce anxiety and change with self statements or coping statements about dealing with anxiety

1. A person who is struggling with anxiety: if he start thinking, convincing himself that I don't have to make myself anxious about anything or put myself down 
2. If I stupidly or foolishly make myself anxious. Start learning that my anxiety is bad but I am not bad 
3. I don't have to feel comfortable and it is not awful when I don't feel comfortable 
4. I can tolerate, I can bear with anxiety it would not kill me 
5. It is not a necessity to be in perfect control of my anxious moments
6. To demand that I be in control only multiplies my symptoms
7. Others are not required to treat me with "kid gloves" when they feel uncomfortable
8. The world does not have to make it easy for me to get a handle on my own anxiety 
9. Anxiety is a part of life, it is not bigger than life 
10. My over-reactive nervous system is part of my life but it is not bigger than life 
11. I can take my and anxiety with me when going places and doing things that I am reluctant to do 
12. Controlling my anxiety is important but not urgent
13. Comfort is nice but not necessary  
14. I don't have to be the one person in the universe to feel comfortable, all the time, all the time
15. I would better not feel calm, relaxed, and serene all the time because if I did I would have one "dickens of a time" - meaning "it would be very difficult" - motivating myself 
16. I don't have to hassle myself or put myself down for not coping better with my anxiety 
17. Anxiety, this too will pass, this too will pass 
18. If I feel anxious, I feel anxious, tough, however I can tolerate it 
19. I may have my anxiety, but I am NOT my anxiety 
20. I don't have to shame or demean myself for anything including created tight knots in my stomach
21. I can concern myself about my anxiety without being consumed by it 
22. To be or not, to be anxious is sometime not within my control 
23. However whether or not to make myself anxious about anxiety is within my control and it is option and it is choice 
24. I will be more effective in achieving control over my emotion if I don't think I have to be perfect at it
25. In attempting to control my emotion, it is best that, I give some margin for error 
26. It is better that I confront rather than avoid anxiety-producing activities unless I make myself even more anxious in the future
27. Purposefully bringing on anxiety can sometime help to control it 
28. I can push myself to do what I feel anxious about 
29.I can go into my anxiety, I don't have to wait for it to come to me
30. Lighten up a little, rather than tighten up a lot 
31. I can welcome opportunities to expose myself to feeling anxious so that I become more skilled in accepting it and managing it 
32. I am still standing accepting my anxiety and undamningly accepting myself
33. Being disappointed about my anxiety does not mean I have to make myself miserable or disabled by it 
34. Over come don't over well and my life does not depend on feeling uncomfortable

Voiceover: Dr. Nazir Hussain

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