[smallwonderer]

Hi guys - I've been having a rough couple of weeks at work. My anxiety keeps spiking, and I don't know how to get it under control. Any tips?

[Keegan2015]

I have also been experiencing work related stress lately! Aroma therapy works well for me... also proper sleep schedule and avoiding coffee / caffeinated tea / booze....

A recent increase in my lithium dose actually helped reduce racing thoughts and quieted the anxiety down a bit too.

[Row Jimmy]

I met with my CBT therapist today. She suggested that I try to look at things using an objective viewpoint. For example, instead of saying "this chair is uncomfortable", she said to simply say "here's a chair".

The former is a negative viewpoint. The latter is simply vanilla. I've just started (second session) but I think she's trying to steer me away from negativity and to reprogram how I view my daily challenges. We all know the challenges that truly bother us will *suck* but we also know there's not much we can do about them and we just have to move forward.

The base/core challenge for me is that my job eats me up and I forget my strategies. I need to remember!

[ComfortablyNumb5]

Oh boy. Well I actually just lost my job from my anxiety/panic attacks and a certain BP med that made me very unstable. And it didn't help that I was loading up on caffeine big time. I was self medicating and desperate to cope with the demanding atmosphere at work.

But what did help was my ativan. I also take buspar daily. Like Keegan said, stay away from caffeine or anything stimulating or activating. Get enough sleep incase you take a med specifically for sleep so you're not waking up with that hangover feeling. And if it doesn't go away and it actually starts effecting your work performance then consider finding a less stressful job. Nothing wrong with that!

In other words, don't do what I did! Really hope you find some relief soon. I understand how much anxiety effects our jobs.

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