SOS Help For Generalized Anxiety Disorder

SOS Help For Generalized Anxiety Disorder
The best thing to do when you suspect you are suffering from GAD is to rush to your family medical practitioner and seek immediate medical help. Side by side, you could start with some SOS measures that would keep the disorder in check or even regress it:

1. Apply the five-pronged calm-down approach - here you would need to use one or more of your five senses - see, hear, smell, taste and touch.
a. See - you could see an enjoyable movie; or go to a park where you could admire the tranquil scenery; take out your family albums and walk through the memory lane with the help of the photographs; and so on.
b. Hear - take a walk in the park and listen to the chirping of birds, swish of the wind through the trees and other sounds of nature.
c. Smell - take a breath of your favorite perfume or that of your partner's (if that is soothing for you); light aromatic candles; have a massage with aromatic essential oils; smell a rose (or any flower you love); go to a bakery and smell the freshly-baked bread or pastries; and so on.
d. Taste - buy your favorite fruit and relish it; visit a nice eating place and order your favorite dish or decide to taste something new; cook your favorite dish; indulge in a rich and tasty chocolate cake; and so on
e. Touch - pet your cat, dog, bird or whatever animal you have at home; go for a relaxing massage; soak in a hot and scented bath; sleep on satin sheets; let the breeze or rain wash over you; and so on.

2. Be AWARE: this word does not only warn you about an imminent danger; this is also an acronym for a foolproof method to manage GAD:
a. ‘A' for accepting that you have an anxiety problem - do not resist anxiety when you feel it coming. Accept it and work with it not against it. Just as you need to turn the steering wheel of a vehicle along with the skid to control it best, anxiety can be checked most effectively when you show least resistance to it. Do not be angry or tense about it. Simply go about the steps that you know would diffuse it.
b. ‘W' for watch out for the tendency to put a label on it - look at your anxiety feeling as objectively as you could under the circumstances. Do not hurry to label yourself as ‘hopeless', ‘worthless', ‘helpless' and such. Anxiety is neither your fault nor part of your character; this is a disorder, which needs to be treated like any other illness.

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