Accepting that nothing matters.
this post was submitted on 16 Jun 2026
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Probably the only thing that sort of works for me. And even that doesn't work great, tbh.
'Ignore all panic, do the next thing.'
meditation
Deep breathing and visualization work well together to calm your heart when it's beating too hard, to lower your cortisol levels, and to get your anxiety down to manageable levels.
But what a lot of people think is they just do it like three times a week or something, and I'm sure that helps, but what is better is to do it every night, and then also, when you're panicking, meditate.
Use those guided meditation relaxation streams on your music provider of choice or even YouTube. I hope you fall asleep easier every night and prepare you for when you need to instantly go into meditation because something incredibly stressful is happening right now.
Can you share such link for guided meditation? It's such a vague word for me
Swear words.
Hahaha. But on a serious note, I 'logic it out' as a coping method.
Example: If I'm feeling insecure about myself but need to go grocery shopping, I will do my best to think of logical likely situations than to the ones that are preventing me. 'I'm worried about the traffic on the way there and/or back.' That's ok. Plan to go on a day that is less likely to be busy and do it at an off hour. 'I don't want to see or hear how much it's going to cost for groceries.' That's completely understandable. You're not alone in that discomfort and stressor. How about we just buy the things we really need this time instead. Would that work?
Often times, 'logicing it out' helps me. But not always. I try to be more patient with myself as well, as these are things that I want and need to do, but yelling at yourself for not doing something or another the day you said you were going to or wanted to, doesn't help (as it turns out.) Somewhere online years ago, I read something that really helped me. It said, "If yelling at yourself to do something worked, it would have worked a long time ago."
Convincing myself that I don't have to worry about aging, and health and death and all that stuff because by the time I have to worry about that, science would've found a solution to it already.