When I get anxious I read. I have found lots of "types" of books and characters that help me at different times, soothe me and make me feel better and energize me so I get back in the fray :-)

Were I a cutter, I think I would take up paper cutting http://elsita.typepad.com/allaboutpapercutting/ or scrap booking, something that was "similar" to cutting but also interesting, creative and engrossing in its own right so I could get away a little bit from the feelings that were distressing me and into "another" world, focus on something else, outside me.