How do you cope with anxiety in a healthy way?

Originally Posted by Duo Maxwell

Explain how masturdation helps your immune system, this is a new one on me.

I masturbate all the time, I still get sick, seems like every season.

Health benefits
Some of the known health benefits of masturbation include:

* Eases some of the symptoms of premenstrual syndrome
* Relief from menstrual cramps
* Muscle relaxation
* Helps you to fall asleep
* Promotes release of the brain’s opioid-like neurotransmitters (endorphins), which cause feelings of physical and mental wellbeing
* Reduces stress
* Enhances self-esteem.

To be honest, the best (and natural cure) for a headache, is an orgasm. Sometimes I masturbate a few times a day.

It honestly DOES help with stress. Much more than most people realize. Plus, it also helps out during sex as well, if you know your own body/when you cum, you can control these things.

Most people will just pass off masturbation as "for sex only" but I know when I have a headache or a migraine (yes, I've got the female disease) I just rub one out and say goodbye to my headache.

I don't know about you guys, but when it comes down to stress/anxiety, my cure for it is of course, masturbation. Don't believe it works?

Next time you're stressed to the max, and nothing works, masturbate!

There's nowhere I can't reach.

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Most people will just pass off masturbation as "for sex only" but I know when I have a headache or a migraine (yes, I've got the female disease) I just rub one out and say goodbye to my headache.

Doesn't work for everyone. I've tried it a few times and only wind up with a worse headache afterwards.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by RacinReaver

Doesn't work for everyone. I've tried it a few times and only wind up with a worse headache afterwards.

Agreed.

As for other methods of coping with anxiety... If taking my mind off it or forcing the emotion into something creative doesn't work, I just keep on going over whatever is causing it until I am so sick of thinking about it that I realize worrying about it isn't solving anything and it suddenly becomes so easy to stop thinking about it.

Most of my non-healthy methods of coping with anxiety have become completely fubar recently, and in fact present me with more worry than I had previously. Feeling ill doesn't help you forget what's bothering you (although some may say the hours which you have blacked out due to overindulgance were worth it as you can't recall being anxious).

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I doubt any of my methods of dealing with anxiety are all that healthy, actually. Right now, for example, I'm freaking out in the anxious manner and being 100% unproductive: opening acad files with no purpose other than to close them without editing anything. Staring off into space happens a LOT and doesn't really help anything either. When I run (or rollerblade, or bike, etc) to change my mood, I tend to be in who-gives-a-damn mode, and I really don't give a damn where I am, what time of day it is, or anything else really. This would be healthy, being a lot of physical endurance activity, except that I tend to get myself in not-so-safe situations when doing so.
-Recently I went out biking, without a light, at 8pm (it was February, so it was well after dark). There were few lights, I had no clue how far I'd gone or had left to go to get back, nor did I particularly care, it was raining, windy, and cold. It was a fairly secluded area, so nothing really happened except I could hardly walk when I finally got back (about 2 hours later, having gone (when I looked it up), oddly enough, exactly 26.2 miles).
-This fall, down in Boston, I left the Fens area at 9:30pm, on rollerblades, headed in the general direction of the water, but didn't know how to get there and again didn't really care. If there was a red light, I'd just turn right simply so I could keep going. It occurred to me later that I'd heard a LOT of sketchy calls and whistles from dark corners, under overpasses, and in dark sketchy alleys (female alone at night = easy target?), but I didn't really notice then, nor give a damn. I ended up in (as a friend informed me later) Dorchester, which is apparently the worst area near Boston. I decided to head back, still in a terrible mood, and got myself about a mile or so into the USPS headquarters, which I'd thought was a bridge, before security freaked out and stopped me. That 'tollbooth' was actually an authorization booth that hadn't notice me going in. Going around the USPS, I got dead-ended into an empty parking lot, followed by a dude on a motorcycle, who ended up turning around and leaving. I got back around 11:15pm.
-I've gone walking through the bad section of Mission Hill with a visibly semi-broken arm in the evening (bad mood + needing to get back to campus + the ride (from the campus police) I was told would be there never showed up).
-I've gone running through the 'ghetto' of my rural town at dusk, 'ghetto' because sketchy people live there. Actually I've done that several times. Me = idiot. I've also almost been hit by a car while I was running, but that was all their fault, as it was broad daylight, sunny, I was about 6' off the road, and they were about 5' off the road.

Healthy way of dealing with anxiety? Sure. Until I finally get mugged/shot/run over/stabbed/raped/arrested/lost (more permanently)/otherwise harmed, it works. Usually. The most dangerous part of it is even if anything happened, if I'm not out of that anxious/depressy mode yet, I wouldn't even care.

I was speaking idiomatically.

If it's a nice sunny day, not too cold, I'll go out and lay in the sun. It really works, especially if you can clear your mind. It works with depression, as well, but I hear anxiety and depression go hand in hand.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

when I'm anxious, I leave everything that I'm doing and I go for a walk, or do something to take my mind off of it. Call a friend to hang out, or go watch a movie. If it's at home, I'll just head outside until the feeling is over, and if it's at work, I might take a break and go outside. Anything really to take my mind away from the thought

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I internalize all of my anxiety and stuff. I don't like venting it out to people or even writing it down. Usually, I just go outside and exert myself physically by running hard and long...that usually helps me to relax and let go of that emotion.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Originally Posted by Will

Anti-depressants and sleep. Zoloft is my everyday solution. When things get bad, Xanax usually makes me numb and sleepy, which is all I can ask for. When things are at their worst and I'm also depressed, I try to do a lot of physical activity, be around people (go figure), pretty much anything to get those endorphins released.

I'm taking lexapro for my depression and Clonazepam for my anxiety. I take the Lexapro cause axiety comes from depression of course and there are some days that i could go without the medication. I always try reading or just hang around people.

Jam it back in, in the dark.