Mood Changes and MS: Managing Anxiety – National MS Society
Mood Changes and MS: Managing Anxiety – National MS Society
3 Tips to Manage Anxiety
This step-by-step process helps me not only fall asleep better, but stay asleep longer, whether I was dealing with rheumatoid arthritis, fibromyalgia, and anxiety.
You can rewire your brain to be less anxious through a simple- but not easy process. Understanding the Anxiety Cycle, and how avoidance causes anxiety to spiral out of control, unlocks the key to learning how to tone down anxiety and rewire those neural pathways to feel safe and secure.
Trauma, anxiety, and other emotions can get trapped in your body. Essentially, emotions can get stored in your autonomic nervous system response. Your nervous system has two responses: the sympathetic response and the parasympathetic response. Both serve an important function in helping you process through intense emotions like trauma and anxiety. But when we interfere with our natural ability to calm down, those emotions can get trapped in the body. So it’s important to learn how to release emotions trapped in your body and to heal stress, anxiety, and trauma through the body.